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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Photographs show abandoned Pripyat devastated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster


Photographs show abandoned Pripyat devastated by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

'It looks like our planet after humanity disappears': Haunting photographs show the abandoned hospital beds and rotting gas masks in the town devastated by the world's worst nuclear disaster 30 years ago 

  • Soviet city of Pripyat was once a thriving, vibrant community home to 50,000 scientists, workers and their families
  • But on April 26, 1986, all that changed forever as a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant went into meltdown
  • The Ukrainian town had to be abandoned after the nuclear explosion and is now desolate, eerie and dilapidated
  • The Chernobyl disaster is one of only two power plant accidents classified as a level 7 event on Nuclear Event Scale

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3556058/Haunting-photographs-abandoned-hospital-beds-rotting-gas-marks-town-devastated-Chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-30-years-ago.html

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