After man.

[gridlore]

23 years ago today the Chernobyl disaster got rolling. The Exclusion zone is still off limits, and visitors can see just how quickly nature can reclaim an area. I'd like to see the Ukrainian government leave the area permanently cordoned off except to people passing through. There have been several specials and series on Discovery about how quickly all traces of our existence would vanish if we all just disappeared one night. These pictures show how it is really happening.

Chernobyl, Pripyat. 23 years after atomic power station explosion (35 photos)

Comments

[charlottesmtms.livejournal.com]

I loved that docu!

[sharrukin.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Ironically, I was having Fallout 3 flashbacks all through those photos.

[shadowcat48li.livejournal.com]

years ago when I trained to work fire watch at a local civilian powerplant, I got to read a document called "The Chernobyl Notebook" it was a series of excerpts from the Main control room operators log from prior to the accident to a week after. it really made for some scary reading. something about an explosion that tossed a steam locomotive engine several miles and left a rather large crater. that and the heat of the fire from the explosion was enough to boil graphite.

[claidheamhmor]

And scariest: that was only one of the four reactors at Chernobyl. They carried on running the others; the last was only shut down in 2000...