Pripyat Ukraine City Ghost Town Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Multiple Display Panoramas Radioactive

The resulting steam explosion killed two workers.

Pripyat ukraine city ghost town chernobyl nuclear power plant multiple display panoramas radioactive. Tens of thousands were evacuated from the neighbouring city of pripyat following the chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. Reactor four of chernobyl nuclear power plant went into meltdown at 130am on the 26 th april 1986. It is manned by the ministry of emergencies and this is an agency that handles all of the activities for the exclusion zone in chernobyl. This photo taken wednesday april 5 2017 shows a central square in the deserted town of pripyat some 3 kilometers 186 miles from the chernobyl nuclear power plant ukraine.

Who worked at the power plant. The history of pripyat chernobyl. Once home to some 50000 people whose lives were connected to the chernobyl nuclear power plant pripyat was hastily evacuated one day after a reactor at the plant 3. In ukraine a radioactive nuclear ghost town near chernobyl is a hot destination.

Visiting the chernobyl exclusion zone pripyat ghost town and the power plant is a trip into an eerie apocalyptic world that youre likely to re visit in your nightmares this is a sharp contrast to the city tours in the ukranian city of kiev. The chernobyl nuclear power plant was considered to be the best and most reliable of the soviet unions nuclear. The city of pripyat is located in and part of the ivankiv raion district and still holds importance and significance in the province of kiev oblast. An overhead look at the nuclear ghost town of pripyat which once was earmarked solely for chernobyl workers.