Chernobyl 30 Years Later
Since this April it will be exactly thirty years since the Chernobyl accident happened... Source: http://englishrussia.com/2016/04/06/chernobyl-30-years-later
Alexei Ananenko, Boris Baranov and Valeri Bezpalov.
Heroes!
Fukashima will end up far worse than this.
Not to mention the spawning of a trilogy of some of the best video games ever made ... the S.P.E.C.T.R.E. trilogy.
weird that there are more stories about Chernobyl than Fukushima these days
I was surprised not to see the usual doomsday over reaction to this event. This report is mostly fair. Most reports and statistics have been ridiculously overstated.
There was a recent episode of Scorpion in which the team is sent to Chernobyl to suppress an ongoing threat of radiation exposure and the potential for a catastrophic breach of the protective barriers now in place. It seemed to be reasonably accurate. There was a scene very much like the picture in the article of abandoned toys.
The city where life stopped in the 80s is slowly getting swallowed by the woods today. Join us and fly over the zone right now.
Morning fogs over the Kiev region.
Gostomel airfield, the main airport of the world biggest aircraft An-225 "Mriya".
Also An-124 "Ruslan" can be seen here. Mriya is standing in the hangar to the right. You can see its tail on the picture above.
This object is called "Chernobyl-2". Twenty seven years ago it was an absolutely secret object. It allowed to follow ground targets over Europe and not only, detect launches of a potential enemy in North America. The complex was called "Duga-1".
The first complex like this was built in 1975 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia. It was first activated in Chernobyl-2 in 1980. According to some data there was invested seven billion rubles (two times more expensive than the construction of the Chernobyl NPP). There was a garrison built not far from Chernobyl where militarymen and their families used to live.
The infrastructure of the city Chernobyl-2 did not happen in a moment - it had been closed until 1987. Then it became clear it could not be used anymore in the exclusion zone. The main units were dismantled and taken to Komsomolsk-on-Amur.
Five Ukrainian base-jumpers jumped from the station in 2012 for the first time.
Chernobyl NPP and Pripyat - some kilometres between them.
"The Red" forest is over the NPP. Its area is about 4,5 thousand hectares.
