Abandoned/derelict sites
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Every Miles A Memory
Expedition Leader
Were you in a full Hazmat suit to take those last images?? Haunting for sure!!
Snake CZ
Observer
Pat: No, the radioctavity is safe for some distance from the disaster area. See on this photo, we were told that we can go only one meter behind the monument. One meter more is so high to be safe. On the second picture is sarcophagus of the 4th reactor and third is dosimeter with the height of the radioactivity here
we were instructed to wear long trouseres, closed shoes and not to move in gras and moss. You have to know that in the area still works around 3000 people (workers, scientists), they have their own post officce there. But the security is high. The stories about travelers who got there on their own are fiction. There were 3 security points with passport check, army everywhere.
It is 5 years that I´ve been there and nothing happened to me.
There was also a harbour that looks also apocalitistic
But the silence there was very strange, you are in the midle of the city for thousands and only wind moves...
we were instructed to wear long trouseres, closed shoes and not to move in gras and moss. You have to know that in the area still works around 3000 people (workers, scientists), they have their own post officce there. But the security is high. The stories about travelers who got there on their own are fiction. There were 3 security points with passport check, army everywhere.
It is 5 years that I´ve been there and nothing happened to me.
There was also a harbour that looks also apocalitistic
But the silence there was very strange, you are in the midle of the city for thousands and only wind moves...
Every Miles A Memory
Expedition Leader
Thanks for the update Snake and adding more photos.
If there is check points and security everywhere, how do they allow people in to get photos? That harbor would make for some amazing images at sunset or early in the morning
If there is check points and security everywhere, how do they allow people in to get photos? That harbor would make for some amazing images at sunset or early in the morning
Toecutter1978
New member
This is a great thread. I need to find some of my pictures.
Snake CZ
Observer
Pat I don't know how it goes now. But when we went, we payed to travel agency some fee, they took our passport nrs. and then we received a message that on some day and time we will meet in Kyev (main city). There we got on the bus with other czech tourists that took us there. There always must be some permition to get there. It is some kind of business for Ukraine or somebody. To say true I don't mind as this is east...
what is strange that there isn't heating in the buildings. Probably army scraped it to have money...
what is strange that there isn't heating in the buildings. Probably army scraped it to have money...
Rattler
Thornton Melon's Kid
Cool, but its not the only one left standing. This one is near Williams, AZ right off of an abandoned stretch of Route 66.
Wow. I was in Williams back in February but they were getting like afoot of snow when we were there.
A few from the old Atlas Powder Plant in Michigan's Upper Penninsula. They supplied most of the explosives for the mines throughout the UP during it's heydays.
The long-gone powerstation's smokestack.
This was a pedestal for a tramway that connected a lot of the buildings. They didn't want them too close together!
Some of the remains at one of the many buildings.
When I got home I dug out a book I had about the company and found a map. It turned out we had only found a small portion of the almost 1800 acres the comapny used. Darn. Going to have to go back . . . . .
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UK4X4
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"what is strange that there isn't heating in the buildings. Probably army scraped it to have money..."
Usually in soviet russia- they had pipe lines from the closest power station to each house or building
In summer the excess heat from the power station was sent to the cooling towers and in winter the twon its self provided the cooling
Since the reactor went Pop .....no more heat !@
Usually in soviet russia- they had pipe lines from the closest power station to each house or building
In summer the excess heat from the power station was sent to the cooling towers and in winter the twon its self provided the cooling
Since the reactor went Pop .....no more heat !@
roverrocks
Expedition Leader
WOW!! Unreal. Totally like being in the unending nightmare of a Stephen King apocalyptic novel!! A gotterdamerrung.
Toecutter1978
New member
An old car we found out on a hike in Jefferson Memorial Forest in Louisville KY.
