ChNPP: Chernobyl Exclusion Zone pt. IV
And this is where it all happened. At 1:26AM, 26th of April 1986 a sequence of miscarried tests would culminate with the explosion of the reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP). The area today is still maintained by scientists / engineers, and safeguarded by the military. Taking pictures of the reactor 4 and its surroundings is very limited. In the photos: Reactor 4 from distance (covered by the sarcophagus), unfinished reactors 5 and 6 and their respective cooling towers and a radioactive hot-spot (measured by a geiger counter - the safe level is 0.016 miliserviets/hour).
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