Reactor 4 over the Roofs of Pripyat 1

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    The infamous reactor #4, view from Hotel Polissya in the ghost city of Pripyat near Chernobyl

    For the story behind the picture: Read the Chernobyl Journal on timmsuess.com

    angyaloksten, Ahlaren, b_g_moore, and 7 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    1. Bousure 50 months ago | reply

      Waouh !
      Crazy, not too dangerous to be here ?

    2. Timm Suess 50 months ago | reply

      Thanks; if you know where to go, it's about as dangerous as a long-distance flight. If you don't, then it can be really dangerous.

    3. geomancer1001 38 months ago | reply

      For the life of me, I can't understand how even the Soviets in all their incompetence didn't think "Hmmm.....puttting 50,000 people 2 miles away from 4 graphite reactors....maybe not the smartest move." If they'd even put them 20 miles away in a city, and then built fallout shelters, they could have saved themselves some real problems. By the way, the wind happened by sheer chance to be blowing away from Pripyat when the reactor blew. If it had been blowing towards the city, everyone would have died, horribly.

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