32 years later. Currently the exclusion zone in Chernobyl (photo)

26 April 1986 was just one of the most terrible and large-scale technogenic catastrophes in the world — the explosion of the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Published July Garbarchuk (@jabbermikkey) 21 APR 2018 10:49 PDT

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Radiation was 50 million Curie, which is approximately 40 times more than in a bomb explosion in Hiroshima in 1945. From the explosion and to extinguish the fire, which lasted for 10 days killed about 30 people, more than 200 were hospitalized. According to unofficial data, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia as a result of the accident affected about 4 million people.

Now, 32 years later, the so-called exclusion zone is a territory with a radius of 30 kilometers. Over the destroyed reactor mounted concrete sarcophagus and protective hundred-meter arch.

In the Chernobyl zone is home to about 300 people staff, in the forests there are foxes, wolves, bears, Buffalo and lynx, and annually to look at the consequences of the accident come to 60 thousand tourists from around the world.

Publication from denise (@denise86_esc) APR 23, 2018 at 2:29 PDT

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