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[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 53 points 1 year ago

That's Chenobyl power plant, but the city is Pripyat.

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 28 points 1 year ago

50,000 people used to live here. Now it's a ghost town.

[-] Zozano@lemy.lol 53 points 1 year ago
[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

19,960 years left to go until it is habitable again

[-] Zirconium@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I bet I could live there and be fine. The pesky Russians might want to kick me out though

[-] cygon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Pripyat and Chernobyl are in Ukraine :)

There are (or were?) guided tours, but for a really good view of what it's like there, I recommend Shiey's Journey Across Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

He's a Lithuanian YouTuber and thrill-seeker who illegally went there and had to run from security at one point, too. He found lots of signs of other "Stalkers," including a group in the flesh that invited him for dinner.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I wonder if he was trying to say invading forces might want to kick him out.

[-] SparrowRanjitScaur@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While the background radiation levels aren't exceptionally dangerous and people do live in the exclusion zone, there are a large number of radioactive hotspots that could be extremely dangerous. They're small pieces of the reactor core that were spread around by the explosion, and they're extremely radioactive still. If you inhaled one or if you were to eat a plant or animal that had eaten/absorbed one it could do a significant amount of damage to you. Kyle Hill has some really good videos on this topic.

[-] IoSapsai@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Kiyv oblast is not Russian last time I checked. The bears, wolves and workers might have a bone to pick with you though.

[-] Zirconium@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Aren't Russian troops still there though?

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 45 points 1 year ago

"Fifty thousand people used to live here. Now, it’s a ghost town."

[-] Shadow@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Babushka's of Chernobyl is a good watch.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3299704/

[-] workerONE@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's got what plants crave

[-] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago

Before was still quite pretty

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can clearly see that the "before" picture was taken years after the disaster....

[-] Snowman@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

The "after" is also fairly old - at least before the new safe confinement was built. Here's what it looked like around 6 years ago: (Apologies for the quality, on mobile and had to shrink it to get it to upload)

[-] AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Or it could be the USSR where people cannot afford cars, there is no money for building mainenance and everyone is at work right now ... /s

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

You can clearly see plants growing out of the concrete, based on the videos that exists of Pripyat from before the disaster that is not what it looked like.

Pripyat was a privileged town where people lived well.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

So you're telling me we should have more nuclear meltdowns?

[-] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Don't tell my wife.

[-] Trail@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

If you are interested in this, you have to see a youtube video of an adventurous guy with a channel called Shiey, backpacking to the region and staying overnight. Such an incredible journey.

[-] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 12 points 1 year ago

The buildings fell down by themselves after decades of neglect or they were torn down?

[-] JASN_DE@lemmy.world 32 points 1 year ago

No one touched them. Most are still standing, just now in a nearly 40 year old forest.

[-] LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nice quiet neighborhood with beautiful mature trees!

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think they are still there just completely covered. Look where the buildings along the middle were. It's different.

[-] niktemadur@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Well I'll be darned, zoom the lower photo and there are the buildings, peeking from behind the folliage.

[-] OlPatchy2Eyes@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I think the pictures were taken from a slightly different angle as well. The buildings seem a bit farther away in the after image.

[-] foggianism@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Wow, what a glow up! The second greatest it experienced.

[-] merdaverse@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I remember reading a while ago that Chernobyl has become a flourishing nature preserve. While animals have a health risk from radiation, it's still a smaller health hazard than living near human settlements. It's sad that our civilization is more destructive than an open nuclear core.

[-] lud@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

To be fair, it's not open any more.

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't think it is fully understood, but there is some evidence that the wolves are becoming cancer resistant

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a46799706/mutant-wolves-of-chernobyl/

[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Must have a great town planning strategy.

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

!workersandresources@lemmy.world is just like that without the radiation (well, there are NPPs and radiation can affect public health, but it's not Tschernobyl: The Game and more Pripjat: 1960-1986)

[-] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Soviet city planning: there are never enough trees

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