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Unfinished Reactors 5/6 & Cooling Towers, Chernobyl, Ukraine - Oct 2016

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Unfinished Reactors 5/6 & Cooling Towers, Chernobyl, Ukraine - Oct 2016

Taken from Day 2 and 3 of my October 2016 visit to The Zone are these two which I have combined.  The weather had improved greatly on Day 3 from Day 2; the rain had played havoc with my camera unfortunately!  

At the time of the disaster on April the 26th 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station was running on 4 reactors and a 5th and 6th reactor was on its way. It is said that these new reactors were 70% complete.

The first reactor was finished in 1971 and the 4th in 1983. The 6th was scheduled to be completed by 1994 and if gone to plan, The Plant would run ten reactors; making it the largest power station in The Soviet Union.

Of course, this did not happen. The Plant continued to operate on 3 reactors until final closure in 2001 and the plans for these two were canned.

I visited the unfinished cooling tower in 2013 so didn't spend too long there. The next day we went into the actual reactor building; which never contained any radioactive material, though the dust inside it is now radioactive from what has blown inside so do not work any dust up!

The site was sold onto a scrap company who have begun removing metal. The Cranes here are highly radioactive so we did not go near these at all.

The scale of this building is unbelievable, huge great empty turbine halls and monumental drops where the reactors core would have been placed had construction taken place.

The buildings are surrounded by old vehicles, including two awesome Volga Cars!

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Thank you!

Discover more Unfinished Reactor at:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/landie_man/albums/72157674196693952

 
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