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Abandoned apartment blocks in Pripyat. The 30-kilometre zone is estimated to be home to 197 Samosely [30] living in 11 villages as well as in the town of Chernobyl. [31] This number is in decline, down from previous estimates of 314 in 2007 and 1,200 in 1986. [31] [needs update] These residents are senior citizens, with an average age of 63. [31]
Chernobyl, [a] also known as Chornobyl, [b] is a partially abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, situated in the Vyshhorod Raion of northern Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. Chernobyl is about 90 kilometres (60 mi) north of Kyiv , and 160 kilometres (100 mi) southwest of the Belarusian city of Gomel .
Bridge of Death (Pripyat) in Ukraine, a road bridge over a railway line, between the town of Prypiat and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where there were unsubstantiated claims of deaths from radiation during the Chernobyl disaster. The explosion destroyed the Chernobyl 4 reactor, killing 30 operators and firemen within three months and ...
A security checkpoint in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, 2010. The Chernobyl disaster in 1986 released large quantities of radioactive material from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant into the surrounding environment. [9] The area in a 30 kilometres (19 mi) radius surrounding the exploded reactor was evacuated and sealed off by Soviet authorities.
On April 26, 1986, reactor number No. 4 at the Chernobyl plant, some 100 kilometers north of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, exploded during a botched safety test.
When we think of the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred when a reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in 1986, we tend to consider the impact it had on humans.
The first-person shooter and survival horror videogames S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (2007), S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky (2008) and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl (2024), developed by the Ukrainian video game studio GSC Game World, are set in a semi-post-apocalyptic and sci-fi version of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. All three games ...
Although dangerous amounts of radiation are still being emitted to this day, curious explorers and photographers flock to the site to see the ghost town. Town still healing 30 years after the ...