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Yes I guess it would have been quite an experience to visit Chernobyl before it becomes a thing. Though, as I said, if you take a two or more days tour, you can visit areas where you are quite alone (I mean just you, the guide and the dozen of tourists of your group). It's just some spots which feel somewhat crowded (all is relative of course) by the groups which visit the zone for just one day.
I bet we stayed in the same hotel btw. Actually I think there's just one hotel in Chernobyl, so it has to be the same. 127- https://i.imgur.com/6osRpFG.jpg 128- https://i.imgur.com/xRsuo8i.jpg 129- https://i.imgur.com/b8PsiyJ.jpg 130- https://i.imgur.com/eJFFheb.jpg 131- https://i.imgur.com/jajnBrO.jpg 132- https://i.imgur.com/bQ7zeII.jpg 133- https://i.imgur.com/JmZVdYj.jpg 134- https://i.imgur.com/tEiYNZK.jpg 135- https://i.imgur.com/FI5Lba8.jpg 136- https://i.imgur.com/YcJfmqb.jpg 137- https://i.imgur.com/Nl1YITZ.jpg To be continued... |
this is easily one of the most fascinating threads on ssp thank you.
it looks like you were here last summer. but i think we all are wondering if you have a cough or have noticed any unusual growths on your body? if anyone else is into nuke tourism fyi there is a more dangerous area in kazahkstan: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2014/0...-with.html?m=1 |
I've just started to glow a little bit in the night.
138- A theatre : https://i.imgur.com/gWE1DMV.jpg 139- https://i.imgur.com/iG9sNkI.jpg 140- https://i.imgur.com/HAWLr4c.jpg 141- https://i.imgur.com/EFwvzMZ.jpg 142- A gym : https://i.imgur.com/pKFjg25.jpg 143- https://i.imgur.com/8wOcU02.jpg 144- https://i.imgur.com/MnWXVwe.jpg 145- A cemetery of old electronic devices : https://i.imgur.com/Xfo5WqL.jpg To be continued... |
I think this fascination for apocalyptic sights is deeply tied to our human need for regeneration.
There's nothing wrong with it a priori. It might even be positive, as long as we keep on our minds that destruction is always easier than building things. Just as hatred is often easier than love. Selfishness feels easier than sharing. And so on. |
A summer camp :
146- https://i.imgur.com/JzSuDbo.jpg 147- https://i.imgur.com/lkbyMZ8.jpg 148- https://i.imgur.com/cw714Ht.jpg 149- https://i.imgur.com/f45RFef.jpg 150- https://i.imgur.com/u7hI2Va.jpg 151- https://i.imgur.com/uxMyh4e.jpg 152- https://i.imgur.com/7s2l1sv.jpg 153- https://i.imgur.com/H4pcsnn.jpg 154- https://i.imgur.com/RnZXvdu.jpg 155- https://i.imgur.com/HbUHrJA.jpg To be continued... |
I can't thank you enough for uploading all those photo's! Absolutely fascinating and eerie!
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Awesome shots - really interesting place - once again thanks for sharing!
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really amazing
didn't realize it was in such a forest zone |
Weird, but beautiful in some kind of way.
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wow... very empty and eerie... thanks!
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Great pictures.
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156- Near the reactors numbers 5 and 6, which were never completed :
https://i.imgur.com/VBr7BuN.jpg 157- https://i.imgur.com/SI0ewDt.jpg 158- https://i.imgur.com/yO6CkmF.jpg 159- https://i.imgur.com/Hfmn3SR.jpg 160- https://i.imgur.com/tcWAFP7.jpg 161- Radioactive fishes : https://i.imgur.com/XoApe4f.jpg 162- Radioactive fox : https://i.imgur.com/zJQQnvA.jpg 163- Some monuments in front of the power plant : https://i.imgur.com/LHxucuV.jpg 164- In front of the reactor number 4 sarcophagus. Levels of radioactivity are not so high (1.34 microsievert/hour as you can read, natural levels of radioactivity in Ukraine are between 0.15 and 0.30 microsievert/hour) : https://i.imgur.com/vFDezFW.jpg To be continued... |
wait, are the fox's eyes ... glowing?
but seriously, everything you wanted to know about radiation dosages is succinctly outlined at a glance here: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-j...72E14R20110315 |
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The liquidators in 1986 had to face radiations levels thousands or millions times higher. Now, that's dangerous. 156- Visiting an abandoned cooling tower : https://i.imgur.com/qqBn6YN.jpg 157- The radiations levels on the ground just in front of the cooling tower are very high : https://i.imgur.com/QhEenk9.jpg 158- They are quite high in the air too : https://i.imgur.com/vlEXVt8.jpg 159- I must say this was the eeriest and creepiest moment of my visit in the zone. The accelerating sound of the Geiger counters, reverberating against the walls of the cooling tower gave a sense of doom, of a an upcoming disaster (see the end of my video on the first post of this thread) : https://i.imgur.com/BRdTS7Y.jpg 160- https://i.imgur.com/u9P6f3h.jpg 161- https://i.imgur.com/vYGVrHZ.jpg 162- https://i.imgur.com/ZBfL77E.jpg 163- When leaving the Zone, you have to pass several radiations checks like this one : https://i.imgur.com/jeMS8iV.jpg That's all ! |
Two short videos I hadn't posted yet.
The first one was shot in the "Emerald" summer camp. This area was entirely destroyed by a wildfire in last April. The second one is inside the cooling tower of reactor 5 and 6, which were never completed. |
Fascinating and amazing. Thank you for the thread. I've always wanted to go
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