Desolate hospitals, abandoned homes and scattered, broken possessions are all that is left of the once-thriving Soviet town of Pripyat.

The town of over 50,000 residents was once hailed as being a vision of the future, with progressive town-planning and modern architecture.
But nearly 30 years ago, all that came to a sudden and violent end.

The town of Pripyat, in Ukraine, sprang up just three kilometres from the country’s first nuclear power plant to house scientists and workers serving the plant, and security troops.

But on April 26 1986, one of the reactors deep inside the Chernobyl power plant went into meltdown, sparking the world’s worst nuclear disaster.






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For years the streets of Fukushima have lain empty after residents fled in fear during a nuclear disaster caused by an earthquake.

The nuclear nightmare saw thousands flee their homes in panic on March 11, 2011, when whole towns and villages were evacuated.

A 30 mile exclusion zone was set up around the site of the disaster, and very few have ventured inside the most restricted red zone since the mass exodus.

But now British photographer Rebecca Bathory has had a rare chance to reveal what the site looks like now, with a book of eerie images revealing the aftermath of the evacuation.

Homes and buildings have remained untouched since the fateful day when a tsumani disabled the power power supply which cooled the three Fukishima Daiichi reactors.

All three cores melted in the first three days, and the government instructed 100,000 people to leave amid fears of isotopic radiation an invisible fiend which can alter human DNA.

Animals starved in the streets and buildings have rotted and collapsed in the intervening years. Although residents in the town of Tomioka were given permission to return, many remain nervous about moving back into the disaster zone.

Although no one was killed by the effects of the nuclear accident, the Japanese government estimates that around 1,000 people died indirectly as a result of the evacuation.

Signing in. .

Explorers, gimme one bottle of plutonium

Lemme book space




Show some love it's my day Mr explorers

Pripyat.




The towns suffered the worst of the contamination from the blast, but increased radiation levels were detected across Europe.

Shattered: Buildings today still stand as they were left during the emergency evacuation, with paint peelings and glass long gone from the windows

I follow this one...
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MODEFIED..
Is there a way to atomically activate the regular IRON we used to know, so that its atoms become unstable, making it radioactive.??
I want to know the possibility of some people making atomic bombs out of ordinary materials that were not naturally radioactive..
Explorers,, Have you ever come across such studies or thoughts,, either by some scientists, or by some nerds.??

Fukushima.




Consumed by nature: Dozens of vehicles lie abandoned during emergency evacuation and covered in overgrown bushes along what was once a stretch of road near the power plant.

Lalasticlala, Mynd44

Fukushima.



Go karts remain lined up and ready to race in an entertainment park located within the 12.5mile exclusion zone.

Left behind stores.

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A stack of contaminated televisions lie in a heap among the overgrown forests and abandoned buildings near Fukushima.

Fukushima.



ABandoned stores, Cybercafe, library located in the town near the Fukushima power plant.

Dozens of abandoned bikes lie chained to bike rails.

They are among the network of towns and villages near the power plant that were populated prior to the disaster.

Interesting

Left behind elementary school, Pripyat.

Left behind: The series of photographs reveal what Pripyat has now become, nearly 30 years after the disaster that forced the evacuation of over 50,000 residents.

Masks litter the floor of the factory in the ghost town that Pripyat.

Moment before the disaster, a dining table and seats, complete with bowls and portable cookers ready for food to be prepared, lie untouched for years.

tk4rd:
I follow this one...
..
MODEFIED..
Is there a way to atomically activate the regular IRON we used to know, so that its atoms become unstable, making it radioactive.??
I want to know the possibility of some people making atomic bombs out of ordinary materials that were not naturally radioactive..
Explorers,, Have you ever come across such studies or thoughts,, either by some scientists, or by some nerds.??

Artificial Transmutation. .

Bombarding Iron atoms with alpha rays. . Any element with atomic number higher than 86 or so is "unstable"

Animals were left to starve in the streets as their owners fled and the pictures reveal the grim aftermath.

The insides of buildings, library remain as they were on 11 March 2011, when the lives of inhabitants changed forever.

Slot machines.

For how long are these places gonna be habitable once again?
Explorers

Goahead:
For how long are these places gonna be habitable once again?
Explorers

Cant really say bro, maybe in 5yrs, 10years or 50yrs.

It depends on the amount of contamination during the disaster.

Musical instruments were left strewn across this room after its owners rushed to safety following government warnings.



A factory is frozen in time after its workers left in March 2011 after three nuclear reactors were damaged by a tsunami.

Abandoned classroom.

Ghost town with electricity.


The streets have been empty since the emergency, and it is only now that the images reveal what remains inside the red zone.

TeflonBlixx:


Artificial Transmutation. .

Bombarding Iron atoms with alpha rays. . Any element with atomic number higher than 86 or so is "unstable"

Atomic numbers above 86 are Heavy metals..
But Iron is in the transition metals category..
Can lighter metals and even compound organic molecules (like cellulose and wood) undergo transmutation.??

tk4rd:
Atomic numbers above 86 are Heavy metals..
But Iron is in the transition metals category..
Can lighter metals and even compound organic molecules (like cellulose and wood) undergo transmutation.??

Yeah now, Lighter metals can be made radioactive by exposing them to Alpha rays including Iron. . Organic "Compounds" bro. . Err I guess not

Explorers:


Cant really say bro, may in 5yrs, 10years or 50yrs.

It depends on the amount of contamination during the disaster.

And we want to set up nuclear plant too despite our huge reserve of gas?

@ Op, is there any hope or preparations on ground, that the inhabitants of these places would someday, go back to the land of their birth?

vatiqan:
@ Op, is there any hope or preparations on ground, that the inhabitants of these places would someday, go back to the land of their birth?

Sure, when the environments is clear, clean and safe.

They went to check on Fukushima last week.