A short foray into some of the major sites around Chernobyl, its power plant and the town of Pripyat; overrun by nature a little over 30 years since the catastrophic explosion.
It's interesting to ponder what sort of an effect (if any) the residual radiation may have had on the following exposures...
A 'hidden' missile detection radar array. Actually, despite its size, it is remarkably well hidden within the zone, and it's big...
Seriously big...
Properly big...
Our first view of the scene of the catastrophe; reactor building unit 4 (since late 2016, a new domed 'sarcophagus' has been placed over the reactor building, somewhat securing it for the next 300 years or so).
The reactor buildings as viewed from 16 stories up, above the town of Pripyat. Around 50,000 inhabitants were evacuated over a period of a couple of hours, the day after the disaster.
One of the two partially completed cooling towers, meant to serve reactors 5 and 6.
The lush, hand-tended garden of one of the resettled residents of the 30km exclusion zone.
Barely 200km away from the power station.
© 2026 Greg Annandale
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