Chernobyl

Posted on 03/07/2009 at 4:24 pm by JumpyPants

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Photo credit: deviant_man

Amazing and haunting set of photos from Ukraine, Pripyat. The location of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

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  • ElMystico

    So, you’re replacing Afternoon Awesome with Afternoon Effing Depressing? Although, I did see something that looked like a loose condom in one of the pictures, so that’s fun.

  • GItheJOE

    El,You may have solved the mystery behind the nuclear disaster. It was the devil condom from Satan’s dick.

  • SillyRatfacedGit

    Those are actually pretty awesome pictures. SE PA came pretty close to needing to be evacuated for a very long time in 1979. Three Mile Island was far worse then the media implied. That was one of my first realizations that the MSM does not deal with facts, but provides propaganda.Thanks for pointing these out Bob.

  • J M Ashby

    Careful Mystico, you’ll give the lunatic fringe more fuel for their anti-condom compaign.

  • ConstanceRifleII

    Anyone ever played Call of Duty 4? There’s a level where you play in Pripyat and it looks EXACTLY the same as these pictures. It even includes that same pool.

  • shaddomagg

    I had a client a couple of years ago who was an Civil Engineer involved with the relocation project of the citizens of Chernobyl to Kiev. He told me that it was such an emotional project. He was able to help develop infrastructure for the resettlement while knowing those who were being resettled were the victims and so many of them were dying. We have no idea! He moved to Canada.

  • http://www.thenewwearsoff.com/ Kyle

    @Constance I noticed that as soon as I saw the swimming pool, I played COD4 enough to remember all the buildings.

  • JackDanieL

    kyle, constance, I will pwn youanytime, anywhere in COD4;)They even got the ferris wheel too!

  • http://www.osborneink.com Matt Osborne

    Chernobyl isn’t even the worst nuclear disaster the Soviets had. It was just the one we found out about; the Swedish radiation monitors that caught Chernobyl didn’t exist when this happened:http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2004/Karabolka-Nuclear-Disaster23apr04.htm

  • Dan in DE

    The old ‘Wohnbloecke’ big rectangular apartment buildings are the same ones you see all over the former Soviet Union. They’re still an eyesore where I’m living in the former German Democratic Republic too, many are abandoned, but the cost of removal is too high.In fact, the Soviets themselves didn’`t have the capability to produce the cement slabs, which materials were being produced here(just a few kilometers away in Meiningen) and shipped out on cargo trains.

  • CycloCynic

    What an awesome photo-essay. Sometimes reality is surreal. I’ll share this link.