Presents photographs taken by photographer Robert Polidori in Pripyat and Chernobyl in Russia in 2003. Background information on the nuclear accident at Reactor number 4 in Chernobyl in April 1986; Images of Reactor number 3 and an abandoned classroom;...
April 26th saw the 32nd anniversary of the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, with the explosion of the Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine causing the direct deaths of 31 people, the spreading of radioactive clouds across Europe, and the effective decommissioning of 19 miles...
Since 1986, the radioactive site has remained frozen in time, and off limits to the public, after a reactor at the plant exploded. The resulting fallout spurred a crisis for the people of the nearby city of Pripyat, Ukraine — and for those living miles and miles away. Today, a protecti...
CHERNOBYL.Presents photographs taken by photographer Robert Polidori in Pripyat and Chernobyl in Russia in 2003. Background information on the nuclear accident at Reactor number 4 in Chernobyl in April 1986; Images of Reactor number 3 and an abandoned classroom; Social commentary on the conditions ...
At NSC, there are hundreds of sensors working around the clock to monitor factors like air quality, and the sensors have detected increased neutron activity near the fallen reactor hall where the “embers” are. German Meyer//Getty Images The Chernobyl New Safe Confinement, installed in 2016, ...
Divided into 4 chapters: Victims, Pripyat, The Zone, and Reactor #4 Redacted CIA documents, a map, and additional resources Published byÂEdition Lammerhuber in Vienna, Austria LOOK INSIDE VICTIMS:At the core of Ludwig’s photographs are the people who continue to suffer this tragedy ...
Patrick Landmann/Getty Images The control panel of reactor unit 4 inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone and nuclear power plant in 2006. Reactor unit 4 was the one that blew up on April 26, 1986. April 26, 1986, 1:23:04 a.m.: The test officially begins, and an unexpected power surge ...
Doug on July 9, 2016 at 4:22 am Very interesting. And great photos, as usual. Besides a description of your tour, I would be interested in hearing anything you found out about wildlife. I’ve read that there has been a sizeable increase in wildlife in the zone around the reactor tha...
rov to shut down Reactor 3, then returned to control room 4 and ordered Akimov to call the daytime shift and get people to the affected unit; namely Lelechenko, whose crew had to remove hydrogen from the Generator 8 electrolyzer. Aleksandr Kudryavtsev and Viktor Proskuryakov, the SIUR ...
When an explosion tore through Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl power plant on April 26, 1986, it was the worst nuclear accident the world had ever seen. Ad Feedback Clouds of highly radioactive particles were released into the air during an attempted routine shutdown of the power plant north of...