24th April 1986 – Chernobyl
Where did the last twenty years go? I was reminded of this by an excellent set of photos by Eileen Gunn of InifineMatrix.net on the 20th anniversary. It and the deserted city of Pripyat looks desolate and bleak.
The statue in the photo is a tribute to the firefighters who went into try and put the fire out. The intense radiation killed many of them and it took nine days to put the main graphite reactor fire out.
As this website says “There also had never been a fire-drill at the Chernobyl nuclear station. Many of the firefighters did not even know what they were fighting, they did not even know the dangers of radiation, much less that they were surrounded by it at the time. No account was ever taken of the possibility of radiation.”.
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Posted: March 26th, 2011 under 30 seconds, photos, russian.
Tags: 20 years on, chernobyl, photos, pripyat, russia
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