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One of the most amazing tours I've ever done in my life has to be visiting the Chernobyl exclusion zone just outside of Kiev in Ukraine. Like many others I'm
Urban explorer, Adam Mark, from Denbighshire in Wales, visited the exclusion zone just a few days ago and captured chilling footage of the town - which appears to have been frozen in time.
The destruction that occurred when there was a nuclear meltdown in Chernobyl, Ukraine, was unprecedented in both scope and severity. Decades later, there have b
Prypiat (Ukrainian: При́п'ять, Pryp”jat’; Russian: При́пять, Pripjat’; or Pripyat) is an abandoned city in the Zone of alienation in northe...
Photographer Tom Skipp visited Chernobyl and nearby Pripyat, its replacement town Slavutych, and the abandoned sites of the region – meeting the people behind the disaster: from the liquidators who worked at the fallout site, to the resettlers and the community who live and work in the area now
Leaving for Chernobyl, You Don't Know What to Expect Every time I visit somewhere heavy places kindly referred to as "dark tourism," I never know how I will feel at the end of the day. Auschwitz was draining and overwhelming but my eyes stayed dry, while I spent the last half of my visit to
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Early on the morning of April 25th, 1986, the world experienced the worst nuclear disaster ever seen, at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The fourth reactor at Chernobyl reacted badly during a test and, what should have been a routine shutdown to prevent damage, resulted in absolute disaster. The resulting (and unexpected) power surge, caused an explosion of steam that caused unprecedented damage to the reactor housing, exposing the core to the atmosphere - all with devastating consequences. As the Chernobyl power station was behind iron curtain of the Soviet Union, recognition of the disaster within the socialist state was
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"Chernobyl won't be safe for humans to inhabit for at least 20,000 years."