Tag: Radiation

The word “stalkers” was first heard in the distant 1970s, in the Strugatsky brothers’ novel “Roadside Picnic”. A little later, based on this book and the script by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, the film “Stalker” was made. The plot of t ...

Poliske is located almost 60 km (37 mi) from Pripyat. It became one of the main evacuation support stations for the settlements most affected by radiation. Pripyat residents were placed in the homes of local residents, some received housing here. The ...

The forest, now known as Red Forest, is 202 hectares (499 acres) of coniferous trees, mainly pines, on the outskirts of Pripyat. It fell under the Western radiation trail immediately after the accident. The deadly level of radiation for pine trees is ...

If you wander around the Zone long enough, sooner or later you will come across strange white houses measuring 4-6 meters (13-20 ft). They stand in the most unexpected places: on the industrial site of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in abandoned ...

After the accident at the Chernobyl NPP, it turned out that there were no vehicles in the USSR capable of operating at high levels of radiation. And part of the work on the Chernobyl NPP was impossible to perform without automatic remote-controlled ...

The first design of this aircraft of unprecedented size, with a 5-blade rotor with a diameter of 30 m (98 ft), appeared in 1952. And in 1954, the first version of the rotorcraft, officially called the Mi-6 (product 50), was built. The Mi-6 was consid ...

The history of CRPV. Probably the most amazing fate has befallen combat reconnaissance vehicles CRPV of the Soviet army. It all started with an incident of placing a conveyer where the authorities wanted it to go. It was supposed to be placed in dist ...

When the rubble was shoveled aside near the destroyed 4th power unit of the Chernobyl NPP, highly active fragments were loaded into special 1-cubic-meter (35-cubic-ft) containers made from a metal grid. Then they were laid at the base of the walls of ...

The Bridge of Death is the main entry point to Pripyat and connects it with Chernobyl Town. This is what people call the automobile bridge on the central road leading to Pripyat. It spans the Chernihov-Ovruch railway line at the station Yanov. From i ...

Pripyat Firehouse was the closest to the plant outside of the facility itself. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23 a.m., the control panel of Militarized Fire Department #2 of Chernobyl Protection received report of a fire. Three units headed to the station a ...

Cooling pond of the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant. This artificial reservoir was created in 1976 to cool the Chernobyl NPP power units. Its area is 22.9 sq km (8.8 sq mi). In the first 10 years of its existence, it became a favorite fishing place for ...

At Chernobyl, there are buildings that were prepared but did not become a part of the plant, unfinished EMO 5 and 6, the so-called “ Release 3.” They suffered little radiation, because authorities hoped eventually to bring them into operation, an ...