Chernobyl part 11. The gray days of the Chernobyl zone

Author: Alexander Starostin





Part 10





Emissions from the nuclear power plant's reactor covered a large part of Eastern Europe, forming several levels of the Exclusion Zone. In principle, you can live there - only carefully. Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 will still be emitting radiation over a large area for a long time, and you shouldn't wander in some places - maps will help you. This is how, for example, the Polesie State Radiation and Environmental Reserve (PSRER) appeared, where you cannot easily get to, and getting a permit is a very difficult task.





Today you and I will have a chance to observe the modest life of the liquidators of the Chernobyl accident, as well as observe the gradual transformation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant from a still living and working nuclear power plant into a corpse undergoing controlled decomposition. And at the same time we will take a look where there are not even self-settlers.





Welcome to the Zone, Stalker.





Geography with a radioactive postscript

General map of radioactive contamination from Chernobyl
General map of radioactive contamination from Chernobyl
Cesium-137 contamination.  Pay attention to the section between Gomel and Mogilev
Cesium-137 contamination. Pay attention to the section between Gomel and Mogilev

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It is impossible not to note the other side of all these processes. As the blocks were drowned out, the workers of the Chernobyl NPP rapidly became poorer, many of whom were already becoming unemployed. At the nuclear power plant, they still paid a salary, which was quite decent by the standards of that time, but those who were left without work were also left without hope. In Slavutich, there was no other work, and still is not.





Semihody station
Semihody station

Cycle start





Author: Alexander Starostin





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