Chernobyl Was Once a Beautiful City in Ukraine. How It Looks Today? Heartbreaking

On April 26, 1986, the worst and costliest accident in the history of the world happened in Chernobyl, Ukraine. It was a catastrophic nuclear accident with an estimated 125,000 casualties. Right after the accident, 200,000 people were evacuated. It has become a ghost city since then.
To this day, access to the area is strictly guarded due to the abnormally high radiation. The photos below will give anyone a chill to the bone.
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Equipment used in cleaning up were abandoned on the spot.
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These are the monument of rescuers. Many of them are now dead from cancer.
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Real time radiation level.
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These are Przewalski’s horses that have been released in the area, which now serves as a natural preserve.
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Access to the city is strictly guarded.
We hope that we've all learned a great lesson from this worst man-made disaster in history, and do our absolute best to stop something like this from ever happening again.

3 comments:

  1. All cities will eventually look like Chernobyl in a hundred years unless viable alternatives are found NOW to Nuclear Power Generation and/or Nuclear Weapons.

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  2. Pripyat was never a beautiful city in Ukraine. It was part of Soviet Russia at the time, Ukraine was effectively a state of the USSR. It was built exclusively for nuclear workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. It was created in February 1970.

    If you want to see dreary, dead places of the old USSR, find the places that were built when the USSR still existed. Almost all of the architecture is strictly functional, and often very crowded. It's a pity that so many people have forgotten the USSR, because the US threatens to redouble the error.

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  3. "We hope that we've all learned a great lesson from this worst man-made disaster in history, and do our absolute best to stop something like this from ever happening again."

    Duh, I'm the author and I'm writing on a subject I don't know anything about so I consider this worse then Fukushima Daiichi which is still uncontained to this day, but GE built that, below original specs, in order to increase profits. Think Pripyat is dangerous - bring in a Geiger counter there, and in Fukushima.

    Stop crap "journalists". Clickbait garbage, not even interested in getting the story correct.

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