Chernobyl
Thursday, 23rd June 2005 by
The site of the Chernobyl nuclear power station is in Ukraine, at the far east of Europe. There isn't super-high res imagery of the area but you can get the general idea of the layout. For an annotated image there is a handy one over on wikipedia. Of course, it is next to large water supply as this was used to generate the steam to drive the power generating turbines. Over 300,000 people had to be resettled because of the Chernobyl accident, around 600,000 participated in the cleanup, millions lived and continue to live in the contaminated area. An increased incidence of thyroid cancer among children in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia affected by the Chernobyl accident has been firmly established as a result of screening programs.
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This is a photographic journal of a Russian woman riding her motorcycle through Chernobyl some 20 years after the disaster. It is thoroughly chilling.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html
Good link Bryan, I’d forgotten about that article. It’s pretty creepy in places.
Bryan, That was one of the most sobering things I have ever seen or read. Words fail…
As Ukraine is now an independent country, please refer to it as such: “Ukraine” and not “the Ukraine”.
Because of this nuclear accident, lots of people in Blacksea Region of Turkey were cancer!!!
The resolution has been greatly increased. Wow. Can someone update this link, with a specific note on which building is the “Sarcophagus”?
@ Fehler: This is the building with the sarcophagus: View Placemark
Please see our latest post on Chernobyl for updated imagery.