Surviving Chernobyl
I’m not going to be trumped by Sam “n00b” Bandah’s visit to feudal France, so here’s something just as topical: my photographic tour of Chernobyl and the abandoned city of Pripyat, taken on a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. visit to GSC in my GamesTM days. I didn’t find any artifacts, though radiation on average was ten times higher than normal… ulp.
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- This is the checkpoint for the exclusion zone: a 30Km2 corndoned area around Chernobyl.
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- Background radiation in the area is unhealthy these days, but not deadly.
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- A scale model of reactor four, post catastrophe.
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- That’s reactor four: 20 years prior to this photo I’d be a dead man standing in the same spot.
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- Pripyat was abandoned in 1986, Soviet symbols and all.
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- This was our guide. I still can’t believe someone would do this job out of choice.
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- Pripyat’s iconic ferris wheel.
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- Mandatory exit radiation scans: what if the light turns red?
What's your opinion?