Chernobyl Exclusion Zone - Zarissya Village - Abandoned Bank
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Neil Harris / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
WAFBWYFile size:
72.7 MB (5.6 MB Compressed download)Releases:
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6396 x 3975 px | 54.2 x 33.7 cm | 21.3 x 13.3 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
3 August 2019Location:
Chernobyl - UkraineMore information:
The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukraine, at the time part of the Soviet Union. The worst nuclear disaster in history and is one of only two nuclear energy disasters rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Due to the continued deterioration of the sarcophagus the No. 4 reactor was enclosed in by the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement Structure, a larger enclosure that allows the removal of both the sarcophagus and the reactor debris, while containing the radioactive hazard. Towns and villages were evacuted following the explosion, a 30 km exclusion zone being set up around the reactor. After the Safe Confinement Structure was finished in 2017 tourists were allowed to visit but with strict controls to check on radiation contamination.