The town of prypyat closest to the chernobyl nuclear reactor was quietly evacuated in the days after the disaster and has become an eerie ghost town picture. More than 870 pictures 100 video and 120 posts. Photos video and facts about chernobyl disaster.
I remember developing a morbid. Exploring the ghost towns the chernobyl disaster first caught my attention when i was 13 years old in a school lesson about the pros and cons of nuclear power. Founded on the 4th of february 1970 pripyat was entirely evacuated.
The nuclear ghost town built just two kilometres from the chernobyl nuclear power plant is marking its 50th anniversary. What s left behind is an eerie and abandoned ghost town with chilling reminders of the ordinary family life. Visiting chernobyl nuclear disaster site is among most desired travel experiences.
Chernobyl had four reactors and each was capable of generating 1 000 megawatts of electric. But today save for the startling emergence of wildlife pripyat remains a ghost town. It only became an official city nine years later.
The town of pripyat or prypyat was founded in 1970 to serve the nuclear plant specifically as a closed nuclear city. I d been meaning for ages to visit the exclusion zone at chernobyl but i wanted an edgier experience than the typical. Earlier this year i booked a spontaneous flight to kyiv.
The ultimate dark tourism experience. Exploring the chernobyl nuclear disaster site. By guest author june 28 2019.
The nuclear disaster ghost town.
Ghost town chernobyl nuclear disaster. The chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 transformed the ukrainian city of pripyat into a ghost town. Other towns have also been abandoned after nuclear disasters and each is a skeleton of its former self strewn with deserted cars and dilapidated buildings. Photos reveal what these places look like years after being abandoned.
Photos reveal what these places look like years after being abandoned. Other towns have also been abandoned after nuclear disasters and each is a skeleton of its former self strewn with deserted cars and dilapidated buildings. The chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 transformed the ukrainian city of pripyat into a ghost town.
