Chernobyl's silent graveyards

[Lt. Manlove]

Such a tragedy but very interesting AND a photographers dream

 

[fieldy]

I have seen these before.

And as before I will never forget them, the are truely astonishing.

And as always should be remembered.

KaHn

quoted for truth, these photos will stay in my memory forever

 

[kippermitten]

Its so eery yet placid - kinda dead but still alive really.
Makes me sad for the people that got so badly affected and yet let down by there government.

 

[SiD the Turtle]

I understand the kiddofspeed site it fabricated, but even so they are so truely amazing photographs.

I was told once that they have put so much lead and concrete into the sarcophogus over the reactor that the ground is collapsing, and they are worried that one day it'll all seep into the ground and pollute underground water supplies.

 

[D4VE]

saw this in the guardian recently...

April 26 2006 marks the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Award-winning Dutch photographer Robert Knoth has visited the area worst hit by radioactive fallout - Ukraine, Belarus and western Russia - to document the toxic legacy of Chernobyl and other nuclear accident sites of the former Soviet Union. The Fallout exhibition, which is free, runs from April 18 to May 14 at the Oxo Tower in London.

slideshow

note hover cursor over pictures to get the narrative

Hadnt seen those before, thanks for posting.

Cant believe radioactive material has been dumped in rivers etc, so bad, hopefully these things will never happen again.

 

[Conscript]

It is worth noting that the kidofspeed website is almost entirely fabrication.

I had heard that said, but the pictures on her site are still interesting, so I posted the link regardless.

 

[cheets64]

Id love to spend a night there camping, hunting for mutated wild bore.

Now I want STALKER to come out on the PC.

 

[srp5031]

i seem to remember a site by the stalker guys where they had taken loads of photos from around chernobyl.

Cant remember the address though

 

[Iraklis F.C.]

saw this in the guardian recently...

April 26 2006 marks the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Award-winning Dutch photographer Robert Knoth has visited the area worst hit by radioactive fallout - Ukraine, Belarus and western Russia - to document the toxic legacy of Chernobyl and other nuclear accident sites of the former Soviet Union. The Fallout exhibition, which is free, runs from April 18 to May 14 at the Oxo Tower in London.

slideshow

note hover cursor over pictures to get the narrative

the crimes commited against the russian people by their leaders are unimaginable , it looks like there are sites where worse accidents have happened. Poor russians

 

[Mad old tory]

An utter tragedy, but one of such morbid fascination. It really is a true ghost town and all because of typical Soviet corner cutting

 

[Zip]

An utter tragedy, but one of such morbid fascination. It really is a true ghost town and all because of typical Soviet corner cutting

How exactly did they cut a corner
I thought it was to do with the wrong button or swich being pressed or not being watched?

 

[Andelusion]

I think something at the plant failed during testing? I know it was during a test anyway.

 

[Agent_Smith357]

I think most of the mistakes where made during the initial cleanup.

Nobody was protected or told what they were clearing.

 

[Lashout_UK]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_accident

Tells you the whole story. A combination of poorly designed reactors, lack of knowledge, human error and a whole lot of 'we don't know what this does, but...' .......

This allowed the chief of reactor crew, Alexander Akimov, to assume that the reactor was intact. The evidence of pieces of graphite and reactor fuel lying around the building was ignored, and the readings of another dosimeter brought in by 4:30 A.M. local time were dismissed under the pretext that the new dosimeter must have been defective. Akimov stayed with his crew in the reactor building until morning, trying to pump water into the reactor. None of them wore any protective gear. Most of them, including Akimov himself, died from radiation exposure during the three weeks following the accident.

Case in point. Reactor had to be kept online whatever the cost, I guess! Probably couldn't believe the whole thing had gone up - or risk admitting it had

 

[Iraklis F.C.]

They called the soldiers of the red army who some of them volunteered to join the cleanup process of removing extremely radioactive rods which have blown away out of the reactors interior , BIO-ROBOTS

 

[tickle me elmo]

Now I want STALKER to come out on the PC.

wont be long now

 

[rlm]

Amazing pictures, wonder what kind of animal life there is around there.

Anyone recognise the helicopter in the first photo of the first link. I thought it was a Mil Mi14 but that doesnt have the wings at the back

 

[RetiredGreyFox]

Id love to spend a night there camping, hunting for mutated wild bore.

It would be easier to spend a night there looking at all the mutated children and Belarus is full of them.
I admit that I cried when I watched a documentary on Belarus.

 

[pyro]

They called the soldiers of the red army who some of them volunteered to join the cleanup process of removing extremely radioactive rods which have blown away out of the reactors interior , BIO-ROBOTS

That's because Soviets have balls, not like the sissie soldiers here

 

[pyro]

It would be easier to spend a night there looking at all the mutated children and Belarus is full of them.
I admit that I cried when I watched a documentary on Belarus.

Oh no, that documentary was horrific, that kid was growing a tumor the size of his head at his back..

But I really want to take the trip to the exclusion zone, I mean, that site is even more of a stigma than Hiroshima or Nagasaki, because there we (humans) dropped bombs intentionally, there it was an accident and shows you what respect this power demands.