ABC News
Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest?
OffOn
Nature has rebounded and it is now a home for rare species that had vanished.
• 9 min read
Chernobyl nuclear disaster: April 28, 1986
Soviet authorities say one of the atomic reactors at the nuclear power plant in Kiev was damaged.Chernobylexplorer
KYIV For the guide who sneaks people into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the crucial moment is when you cross over the barbed wire fencing that marks its edge.
“You don’t know what might happen after. The police may arrest you, so you need to be fast,” said the guide who asked to be referred to only as John to avoid trouble with authorities. “The adrenaline is at a maximum level. In one step you’re in a forbidden zone, where humans don t rule anymore.”
Chernobyl prepares for tourist influx vestnikkavkaza.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vestnikkavkaza.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Denis Vishnevskiy, chief of the unit of the Chernobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve, speaks during his interview with the Associated Press at the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Ukraine, Tuesday, April 13, 2021. This is a gigantic territory in which we keep a chronicle of nature, said Denis Vishnevskiy, 43, who has been observing nature in the reserve for the past 20 years. The exclusion zone is not a curse, but our resource. The vast and empty Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is a baleful monument to human mistakes. Yet 35 years after a power plant reactor exploded, Ukrainians also look to it for inspiration, solace and income.
.... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... ....
KYIV, Ukraine The vast and empty Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is a baleful monument to human mistakes. Yet 35 years after a power plant reactor exploded, Ukrainians also look to it for inspiration, solace and income.
Reactor No. 4 at the power plant 110 kilometers (65 miles) north of the capital Kyiv exploded and caught fire deep in the night on April 26, 1986, shattering the building and spewing radioactive material high into the sky.
Soviet authorities made the catastrophe even worse by failing to tell the public what had happened although the nearby plant workers’ town of Pripyat was evacuated the next day, the 2 million residents of Kyiv weren’t informed despite the fallout danger. The world learned of the disaster only after heightened radiation was detected in Sweden.