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A trip into modern-day Chernobyl

April 27, 2011 @ 10:39 pm

Here is amazing video of modern day Chernobyl, Ukraine, the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster 25 years ago and a recent hot topic due to the nuclear disaster in Japan. PBS Newshour correspondent Miles O’Brien ventures into the … Continue reading →

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Chernobyl disaster photos

March 23, 2011 @ 8:50 pm

Photo: ZUFAROV/AFP/Getty Images The Atlantic’s In Focus blog has 39 big images of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster which is coming up on its 25th anniversary on April 26th. Man, talk about seeing some crazy abandoned disaster porn!

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Book a tour to Chernobyl

March 6, 2009 @ 10:47 am

I didn’t know this, but there’s apparently a company that sets up tours to Chernobyl and allow you to roam the nearby abandoned town of Prypiat with a tour guide. The tour guide carries around a radiation detector and shows … Continue reading →

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nuclear NIGHTMARES by Robert Knoth

February 12, 2008 @ 10:07 pm

I’ve seen my fair share of documentary photographs about the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, but I’ve never seen a set of photos so powerful and well put together as those from Robert Knoth. [via] In nuclear NIGHTMARES: Twenty Years Since … Continue reading →

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