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Chernobyl zone 30 years after the tragedy

Chernobyl nuclear energy plant

In the Nineteen Seventies, building of the primary nuclear energy plant in Ukraine started within the Chernobyl area. The Chernobyl nuclear energy plant is positioned 3 km from the town of Pripyat and 18 km from the town of Chernobyl. It produced a tenth of the electrical energy within the Ukrainian SSR. The Chernobyl nuclear energy plant was fully stopped solely on the finish of 2000. Work is underway on the development of a brand new isolation construction over the fourth energy unit.

Chernobyl zone 30 years after the tragedy

Chernobyl is the executive middle of the exclusion zone

Before the accident, 12.5 thousand individuals lived in Chernobyl, all of them had been evacuated a couple of days after the tragedy. At the second, the town is included within the 30-kilometer exclusion zone, being its administrative middle. The personnel of the enterprises positioned right here stay in deserted residence buildings. When crossing the boundaries of the exclusion zone, everyone seems to be required to endure dosimetric management.

Chernobyl zone 30 years after the tragedy

Arch is a brand new hideout for the sarcophagus

More than 600 thousand individuals took half within the liquidation of the Chernobyl accident. Their major job was the development of a concrete sarcophagus for the 4th energy unit. Under the affect of exterior elements and radiation, the previous shelter started to break down, which is harmful – about 200 tons of radioactive substances are nonetheless saved there. The new arched construction ought to cowl the sarcophagus and permit the start of its partial dismantling.

Chernobyl zone 30 years after the tragedy

“Samosely” within the exclusion zone

Until now, the focus of radionuclides within the exclusion zone is excessive, which doesn’t enable lifting restrictions on residing there. However, quickly after the accident and evacuation, native residents started to return to their properties underneath varied pretexts. These individuals had been nicknamed “self-settlers”. Today there are about 180 of them within the zone: 80 in Chernobyl and about 100 extra in villages positioned within the 30-kilometer zone.

Chernobyl zone 30 years after the tragedy

Shop with groceries twice a month

Basically, “self-settlers” are aged individuals. They now stay in 4 villages within the 30-kilometer exclusion zone. “Samosely” develop greens and fruits, collect mushrooms within the forest and drink water from wells. Of the advantages of civilization, they’ve solely electrical energy. A grocery store with bread and cereals arrives twice a month, and as soon as a month the postman delivers pensions.

Chernobyl zone 30 years after the tragedy

Pripyat is a ghost city

The metropolis of Pripyat is positioned on the banks of the river of the identical identify, 3 km from the Chernobyl nuclear energy plant. It was he who underwent the best radioactive contamination. The inhabitants of the town of Pripyat was 47.5 thousand individuals, the following day after the accident, all of them had been evacuated. Even after the decontamination work, the radiation stage is simply too excessive, so the town is uninhabitable.

Chernobyl zone 30 years after the tragedy

Secret object “Duga-1”

Secret object “Duga-1” is a Soviet-era radar station designed to detect ICBM launches. “Duga-1” by no means took over completely on fight obligation. The dimensions of the multi-antenna construction are 700 meters lengthy and 150 meters excessive. After the accident on the Chernobyl nuclear energy plant, the power was mothballed, later its major parts had been dismantled and eliminated.

Chernobyl zone 30 years after the tragedy

“The bucket of dying”

The so-called “bucket of dying” is among the present sights of the town of Pripyat. The bucket was used within the liquidation of the results of the accident immediately on the 4th energy unit of the ChNPP. The radiation from the bucket (even a couple of meters from it) exceeds the norm by ten thousand instances. It is forbidden to the touch it.

Chernobyl zone 30 years after the tragedy

An exemplary metropolis of the Soviet period

The metropolis of Pripyat was constructed as an exemplary one; throughout its building, architectural options that had been progressive for these years had been used. At the time of the evacuation in 1986, there have been 15 kindergartens, 5 colleges, swimming swimming pools, canteens, sports activities complexes, clinics, a cinema and a palace of tradition in Pripyat. Now nearly nothing is left of the town: the roads are overgrown, inner partitions have collapsed in lots of buildings.

Chernobyl zone 30 years after the tragedy

Dead floor

Pripyat was to turn into essentially the most stunning, exemplary metropolis in Soviet Ukraine. But it went down in historical past as a city-monument to the worst nuclear disaster on this planet. At the second, in Pripyat, there may be solely a particular laundry, a station for fluoridation and deferrization of water and a storage for the ChNPP particular tools. Not a single individual lives within the metropolis.

Chernobyl zone 30 years after the tragedy

Extreme tourism zone

Several thousand excessive vacationers go to the exclusion zone yearly. Before the beginning of the battle in jap Ukraine, Russian residents had been within the lead amongst international vacationers. Today a lot of the friends are from Poland, the Czech Republic and the USA.

Author: Anastasia Magazova