1986-2006 — This is a site that highlighted the photos of Chernobyl over the past 20 years. An important show. It also highlights a lot of unique graffiti.
kudos to Aric Mackey
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Think of what you SHOULD wear when voyaging into this area, as a Graffiti artist.
Either that, or Glow in the dark.
it always intrigued me, that the stop signs are in English in Russia. I saw this in 92, when i was over in St. Petersburg for a student exchange program.
I have to go there one day.
I never could understand how the area around Chernobyl was rendered uninhabitable, yet the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are completely rebuilt. It would seem that nuclear reactor radiation is more dangerous than atomic weapon radiation.
the nuke material wasnt Blown away…
Its still sitting there…Even incased, that stuff is BAD.
It radiated the whole area, and the amount was ALOT more then what is placed in a bomb.
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Quite a few countries use the English spelling on the stop signs.
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It’s just a matter of time until the next nuclear disaster. Especially with so many new nations joining the club.
Some of my wife’s relatives live in Eastern Hungary. It is not particularly close to Chernobyl, nor was it one of the unlucky places that got a big initial dump of fallout because of wind and weather patterns. Yet 20 years later they STILL don’t grow veggies because of fear of radioactive contamination.
In France, the signs read STOP, but in Quebec they are ARRET. For Russia,
STOP
sounds pretty good to me. Otherwise, they’d use …
OCTANAVLYAITES’ POZHALUISTA
which would make a peculiar red octagon indeed.
Some interesting stop sign variants are here. Even in the USA they were no always red.
#5 – I read this interesting report on chenobyl a few months ago that indicated that the “shell” that encases the reactor cores that went ka-boom is degrading a lot faster than it was originally projected to last, and will need to be replaced soon – but the first time it was encased a whole bunch of people died of radiation getting it to that point…
I wonder if theres any robots that could do the job – like a uber-roomba or something – anyone know?
8. Yeah, most of the signs around my town say STOP BUSH. Sometimes vandals are good.,
Yet another reminder that humanity is doomed to never have it’s technology fully under control. What future horrific disasters await us?
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It wont be easy, and many will die..
The caseing, must get/be under the Pile to stop it from decending…
If it hits water, it will explode or Live steam will emerge and poison everything.
Reminded me of this site- http://www.kiddofspeed.com/ – a woman who documented her travels through the area on her motorcycle. Interesting reading.
^^Unfortunately the story was a hoax. But still interesting non the less.
More photos can be found here: http://pripyat.com/en/photo_gallery/
#11: It’s not really possibly anymore. The Russians used a very early reactor type that had been in operation for a while. The mechanism to drop the control rods got stuck and the reaction went out of control, melting it down. That mechanism has been vastly improved since then.