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Chernobyl, Ukraine

24 images Created 6 Sep 2015

Chernobyl is a place where you feel an incredible sense of waste as signs of human habitation slowly disintegrate, but also the awesome power of regeneration as green overcomes the toxic earth.
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  • The doomed Chernobyl Reactor number towers in the distance viewed from the neighbouring workers' town of Pripyat.
    Chernobyl Complex The Dome and Sarco...jpg
  • The Cooling Tower for the never completed Chernobyl reactors five and six.  Construction on these continued for three years after the disaster.
    Chernobyl Cooling Tower.jpg
  • Standing at the gates of Chernobyl's domed fourth reactor.  A crane works to reinforce the protective dome entombing the reactor core as it has suffered from some two decades of aging.
    Chernobyl Domed Sarcophagus of React...jpg
  • The road into the workers' town of Pripyat.  Once a population of 48,000 many of who worked at the nuclear plant it is now a ghost town on Chernobyl's fringes.
    Chernobyl Entering Pripyat.jpg
  • A small parkette outside a block of Soviet-styled apartments in Pripyat.
    Chernobyl Forgotten Pripyat Parkette.jpg
  • Lampposts in the workers' town of Pripyat boast a Soviet era hammer and sickle light frame.
    Chernobyl Hammer Sickle Lamppost.jpg
  • A monument to the liqidators of Chernobyl's reactor fire rises in the center of the city.  Officially fewer than fifty deaths are attributed to the disaster, while estimates of total deaths in the Ukraine and surrounding territories range from 4000 to Greenpeace's staggering tabulation of 100000 fatal cancers.
    Chernobyl Reactor Fire Liquidators&#...jpg
  • Soviet era apartments in Pripyat, home to many of Chernobyl's workers, slowly slide into decay more than twenty years after the city's evacuation.
    Chernobyl Forcibly Evacuated Pripyat...jpg
  • Soviet era apartments in Chernobyl's suburb of Pripyat slide into decay some two decades after the city was evacuated.
    Chernobyl Forcibly Evacuated Pripyat...jpg
  • Chernobyl's doomed Reactor number four rises in the distance behind the evacuated suburb of Pripyat's Soviet era apartment blocks.
    Chernobyl Forcibly Evacuated Pripyat...jpg
  • Chernobyl's Pripyat Fairground Ferris Wheel patiently awaits customers for what was supposed to be its May Day 1986 grand opening.
    Chernobyl Pripyat Fairground Ferris ...jpg
  • An abandoned hotel in Pripyat slides into decay two decades after Chernobyl Reactor 4's meltdown, stripped of much of its interior by scavengers.
    Chernobyl Pripyat Scavenged and Aban...jpg
  • The front lobby of Pripyat's leading hotel two decades after its evacuation following the Chernobyl reactor meltdown, stripped of much of its decore by scavengers.
    Chernobyl Pripyat Hotel 2.jpg
  • A Pripyat building sports a cultural mural themed on the Soviet Communist collectivism ideology.
    Chernobyl Pripyat Cultural Mural Sov...jpg
  • Pripyat's theater boasts a collection of larger than life Soviet era leadership portraits.
    Chernobyl Pripyat Leadership Portrai...jpg
  • Gas masks lay scattered and discarded in the foyer of Pripyat's elementary school after the panicked evacuation following Chernobyl's meltdown.
    Chernobyl Pripyat Discarded School G...jpg
  • A piano slowly decays in Pripyat's elementary school twenty some years after the city's evacuation.
    Chernobyl Pripyat School Piano.jpg
  • Desks in Pripyat's elementary school blister and decay more than two decades after Chernobyl's reactor meltdown forced the evacuation of the city.
    Chernobyl Pripyat School Classroom.jpg
  • Books grow mold in the devastated library of Pripyat's elementary school more than two decades after Chernobyl's reactor meltdown.
    Chernobyl Pripyat School Library.jpg
  • The hardwood is buckled, but the basketball net is unbowed in Pripyat's elementary school, even twenty years after the Chernobyl reactor meltdown forced the city's evacuation.
    Chernobyl Pripyat School Gymnasium.jpg
  • An elderly returnee couple pose in their cottage-sized home on the outskirts of Chernobyl more than two decades after their evacuation following the reactor meltdown.
    Chernobyl Evacuation Returnees in th...jpg
  • On the outskirts of Chernobyl a vast field is cluttered with radioactive equipment used to extinguish the blaze after the number 4 reactor's meltdown.  The helicopters are the size of houses.
    Chernobyl Radioactive Military Vehic...jpg
  • On the outskirts of Chernobyl a vast field is cluttered with radioactive equipment used to extinguish the blaze after the number 4 reactor's meltdown.
    Chernobyl Radioactive Military Vehic...jpg
  • On the outskirts of Chernobyl a vast field is cluttered with radioactive equipment used to extinguish the blaze after the number 4 reactor's meltdown.  The helicopters are the size of houses.
    Chernobyl Radioactive Military Vehic...jpg
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