Chernobyl pics (56K die) (from ARF)

[Turbo Tension]

Saw these IMGUR links posted on ARFcom. I thought I knew about Chernobyl. I was quite wrong.

Chernobyl being built
http://imgur.com/a/V4cZT

Pripyat
http://imgur.com/a/yYbG8

Melt down and aftermath (UNREAL)
http://imgur.com/a/RcGWO

1000 TON lid of the reactor - blown in to the air by the force of the explosion

 

[Sosa]

The disaster has always fascinated me. Cool pics.

 

[truth-seeker]

Just spent an hour looking at these & searching online about Chernobyl it was worse than I remembered.
Thanks for the link.

 

[Shann]

Those pictures are terrifying. Think of all the people who went in there during the emergency probably just knowing that they would die of something that they couldn't see or fight.

 

[BA_Colt]

This is a link to a woman who lied about riding her motorcycle through Chernobyl. It has been around for a while.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elena_Filatova

 

[Turbo Tension]

Just spent an hour looking at these & searching online about Chernobyl it was worse than I remembered.
Thanks for the link.

That's about how I was. It's unbelievable to see these guys shoveling the graphite pieces estimated at 5000 roentgens from the roof down into the hole.

 

[Gallows]

What an amazing series of pictures to see the promising beginning of a city to its sad fate.

 

[agembry]

I too have always been fascinated by this. Thanks for sharing.