Stumbled upon this site. Some real sad pictures of the nuclear disaster that happened in Chernobyl.
On the 26th of April 1986 shortly after midnight, to be precise, at 1:23 GMT, there occurred near the Ukrainian town of Chornobyl a tremendous explosion at a huge nuclear power plant, followed by a gradual meltdown of the reactor No. 4.
It was by far the worst nuclear reactor accident ever, which immediately sent a radioactive cloud across neighbouring Byelorussia, Poland and the Baltic Republics towards Scandinavia.
Till now the land is abandoned, thousands of houses, thousands acres of the land, everything is now stays almost the same as it was 20 years ago.
This Soviet Era sign indicates the entrance to Chernobyl county. Many of the things there stand unchanged since Soviet union times.
It is the monument to the people who tried to shut down the nuclear station right after the accident happened. Many of the died – some same year (1986) others a little bit later.
More pictures at EnglishRussia.com.
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September 26th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
What a horrible tragedy Chernobyl was. I sincerely hope history never repeats itself either here or anywhere else in this way.
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September 26th, 2006 at 4:40 pm
i vaguely remember my fada talking about it… back home we had the Bhopal Gas tragedy…. even saw a movie about it.. Bhopal Express..
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