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Apr 22, 2016 · Thirty years after its fourth reactor exploded on 26 April 1986, an exclusion zone is still in place around the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. Photographer Jerzy Wierzbicki visited the...
Oct 6, 2020 · After embarking on both permitted and illegal ventures into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, British writer and photographer Darmon Richter was able to document the ghostly ruins and abandoned structures throughout the hazardous region.
- The Disaster of April 26, 1986
- Unimaginable Contamination Inside The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
- Inside The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Today
The night before the Chernobyl disaster, the plant had a one-time shutdown for routine maintenance on reactor four planned. The maintenance, obviously, did not go according to plan. For starters, workers disabled all the equipment in the plant, including the mechanism that shuts down the plant in the case of a serious emergency. Chernobyl's four re...
Sweden's radiation monitoring stations over 800 miles northwest of Chernobyl detected radiation levels 40 percent higher than standard levels just a day after the explosion. Chernobyl continued to burn for ten days and the Soviet government scrambled to evacuate some 115,000 locals from the plant's surrounding areas. The Soviet government relocated...
The Chernobyl exclusion zone was officially designated on May 2, 1986. This zone was initially closer to 19 miles wide to indicate the boundary in which radiation was simply too high for human habitation. A reevaluation in 1991 had the zone extended to encompass some 1,600 miles — which is how it remains today. Until 1995, areas in Ukraine continue...
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The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone was the site of fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces during the capture of Chernobyl on 24 February 2022, and during its eventual liberation during a Ukrainian counterattack two months later, as part of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
