Far better than the dumb celebs^Whuman flesh marchandising,

I love these. Anyone have more?

http://www.opacity.us/

i teh melted from awesomeness.

Tasty

Yummie

ambrosia

Appetizing

Pripyat

Chernobyl used and contaminated vehicules parc.

This might be a Pripyat school.

Pripyat fairground

Pripyat fairground again.

Pripyat apartment

Thanks, Anon. These are mostly new to me. I haven't found duplicates (except for the bumper cars) in my whole Pripyat folder.

Source??

>>999986
My source for those is 4Chan!

Since you don't know these picture you might be interested by the others I have. I'll post bellow all the images related to Chernobyl I have collected.

That is about half of what I have, I'll post the rest in ~24 hours.

BTW: Not all of them not from 4chan as I wrote earlier, some also come from a russian chan. Maybe that's they're new to you.

cool, want to go one day

>>1001031

Well the first one was mine. Here's some more

>>1001178
>>1001187
>>1001182
>>1001191

Are all those four also from the Chernobyl exclusion area?

Getting back at posting my Chernobyl collection.

fifty thousand people....

The last from my collection.

Do anyone have more?
Picture taken during the accident, days or months after it would be welcome.

Whoah, thanks for the Chernobyl pics! I only have a few.

Can't upload another panorama because it's too small. EOD.

Found another one via google. Well, slightly off-topic... it looks intact. Does the text say some part of the reactor is still active?

Info for the picture:

Oraşul Pripyat se află la cinci km de centrala atomică Cernobîll. Până în 1986 trăiau aici 50.000 de oameni. Astăzi Pripyat este un oraş fantomă, păzit cu străşnicie de poliție, un oraș plasat în inima unei regiuni radioactive ce se întinde din Ucraina până în Rusia Albă, un oraș contaminat în cel mai înalt grad. Satele au fost în cea mai mare parte evacuate. Cine dorește să vină aici are nevoie de aprobări speciale, iar cine vrea să-l părăsească trebuie să se supună unui test dozimetric. Zona este înconjurată cu sârmă ghimpată pe 30 de km, chiar dacă aria contaminării solului se întinde mult mai departe.
Circa 15.000 de oameni trăiesc sau lucrează aici. În blocul nr. 3 al centralei, încă activ în administrația zonei, în poliție sau în numeroasele institute de cercetare există locuri de muncă foarte râvnite, căci sunt bine plătite. O mare parte din sate sunt locuite de proprietari emigranți, reîntorși ilegal și tolerați, sau de către oameni care s-au refugiat în casele de aici datorită zonei nesupravegheate.
Pripyat este și numele fluviului care curge pe lângă centrala atomică în Dnjepr și care alimentează populația cu pește chiar și în ziua de azi.
Pripyat este istoria unei supraviețuiri într-un univers improvizat, în care ar trebui să mănânci și să bei cu o oarecare reticență, să respiri cu măsură, să trăiești mereu cu teama de a nu fi contaminat.

http://www.austriacult-bucuresti.ro/page/arhiva.html

>>1002233
It was (apparently) still live at the time they took that photo, but the whole complex was shut down in 2000.

There were four reactors in the complex, and the other three (of the same design) were still in use until then, because selling electricity was just about the only source of money (especially "hard currency") for Ukraine. The ongoing cleanup and containment costs were eating up about 10% of Ukraine's GDP, so they really needed the money. The government bowed to international pressure in 2000, having been given assurances that the rest of the world would help with the costs.

Do keep in mind that the reactor design was very old and was unsafe compared to modern designs, but (a) they were desperate for money, and (b) the reactors weren't really THAT unsafe, as long as no complete idiot decided to "simulate" an emergency by disabling a bunch of the safeties and then shutting off the coolant pumps. The primary cause of the whole disaster was human stupidity.

>>995777

Thanks for your contribution. Anyone else?

Nice thread, I've just read about the "Red forest" in Chernobyl. Pretty creepy and depressing. It seems the plants have mutated a lot in that area.

>>Do keep in mind that the reactor design was very old and was unsafe compared to modern designs, but (a) they were desperate for money, and (b) the reactors weren't really THAT unsafe, as long as no complete idiot decided to "simulate" an emergency by disabling a bunch of the safeties and then shutting off the coolant pumps. The primary cause of the whole disaster was human stupidity.

+1, I've researched the topic to death, and this is pretty much what it comes down to. Had engineers from any other country been there, all of Chernobyl would still be operating faultlessly today, but the Russian "must produce results" ethic meant this or some similar disaster would be inevitable.

Also, the Pripyat apartment pic ( >>999191) reminds me of one of the stories from that night; one of the the very first firefighters on the scene (who did not know what he was responding to) had a pregnant wife who was at home in their apartment only a mile or so away from the plant; she opened a window and leaned out of it to get some night air (also unaware of anything), and noticed that there was a bright white light in the distance with a shaft of light going into the sky. She noted a strange metallic taste in her mouth. All three were dead in a matter of hours.

Quick Question, sorry if its extremely dumb: What are all of the cranes for?(around the power plant)

>>1004526

i'd say to erect the cement sarcophargus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Safe_Confinement

just a guess though.

>>1000980
You'' have to take the coriolis effect into account at this distance

>>1004466
The "metallic taste" has been noted repeatedly as a sign of massive radiation exposure. I just read about it in the wiki page on Louis Slotin, one of the researchers killed in an accident with one of the early nuclear bomb cores (see also the wiki on the "demon core").

As no one posted other Chernobyl photos I surmise this thread contains all good one that are in existence. There should be more floating around there.

>>1002233
no, nothing like that, it says that the dnepr reactor is still in function

>>1005268
>>1004466
Well if the people you are talking about both died after 3 hours of the meltdown. How did you fucking know that she witnessed a bright white light and felt a metallic taste in her mouth?
Dead people talk do they?

>>1005916
I guess that was just made up. The Wikipedia article mentions something about the metallic taste the firefighters experienced when they first arrived at the scene, not knowing that the reactor core was on open fire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster#Fire_containment

Some additional information: The metallic taste is believed to be from Iodine-131 that was in the air. The radiation in the city of Pripyat itself reached a critical level on the evening after the disaster. And after 4 days of exposure the people would have died. So there's no way the woman could have died the same evening the reactor exploded.

I've never seen any photo taken during the initial core meltdown. That pillar of light described by several observers should be something to see at least once in a lifetime, espacially at distance.

>>1007014
I've seen CGI of it in a documentary that was on Discovery channel. You may find it on Google video. If it really looked like that, it must have been spectacular. A Russian described it, and told it was in all colors of a rainbow. But I'd rather not want to something like that for real.

I'm trying to find more photos taken by Igor Kostin. He was the first professional photographer on location just a few hours after the accident.

>>1007364
He was severely irradiated by flying directly over the reactor. Even his equipment was failing.

>>1002201

Her wrists and hands are HUGE, is she turning into a Super-Mutant?