A trip to the Chernobyl zone (32 photos + text) Bashny.Net

We leave the town of Chernobyl, and our way at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, and then in Pripyat. But first a little detour to the right, toward the Slavutych. Slavutych - the town built in the years 1986-1986, 50 km to the east of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant workers and their families, as well as migrants from the city of Pripyat. With NPP city is connected by train and bus links.


Highway bridge in the river Pripyat Slavutich


Pripyat River, the view towards the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Shells stations are visible above the forest - to the left. Behind my back - a view of the backwater with rusting ships and the city of Chernobyl


Left - the fourth unit in the center of the unfinished 5-6, to the right - the unfinished tower is


We go back to the track and drive to the next check point: here is the entry in the 10-kilometer portion around the plant. Security verifies only the number of people in the bus with the number in the list.


Former Village Kopachi. After the accident, it is literally buried under the ground - it was heavily contaminated


The familiar yellow triangles in the former homes


The village (if we move in the direction of nuclear power) is on the right, and if you look to the left, then over the forest you can see the outlines of the project "Chernobyl-2", officially - horizon radar station "Arc". It's part of the missile and space defense troops of air defense. After the accident at the nuclear power station was closed.


Entrance sign


Electric forest - a complex of nuclear power substations


ISF - the repository for spent nuclear fuel. The future fate of the Chernobyl zone - a pan-European nuclear waste dump.


Unfinished tower (cooling tower - a device for recirculating cooling water in which cooling water is carried out by its partial evaporation into the air) and zhelenodorozhny Bridge






The complex of the 5th and 6th reactors (third place). Unfinished 5 th and 6 th unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant them. Lenin never put into operation. The fifth unit was planned for commissioning in 1987, and the sixth - in 1989. After the accident, the work had been frozen and then canceled altogether.








General view of the nuclear


Unit 4


The tube in the center - start-backup boiler in the foreground administrative building nuclear


Dosimeter, a constant beeping passing in different tones, provided the background music


Monument "Prometheus" on the territory of the NPP


The observation deck at the 4th power unit


The monument raised in 2006 in memory of the lost liquidators.


View of the bridge leading to the nuclear power plant in Pripyat






The railway line to the right leads to the territory of the plant. On the left there were ways to crash the usual long-distance trains, Chernigov, Zhitomir example, as well as Moscow-Khmelnitsky, passengers whose April 26, 1986 in exchange for tickets issued license "Chernobyl».


Railway station "Midsummer", located almost between the Pripyat and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. If I understood correctly, it was the train "station" of Pripyat.




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