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reactor #4
reactor #4
Mephisto


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Camera: Fujifilm FinePix S3 Pro
Lens: Sigma 20mm f/1.8 EX Aspherical DG DF RF for Nikon
Galleries: Black and White, Photojournalism
Date Uploaded: Sep 1, 2008

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 On 26 April 1986 at 01:23:44 a.m. (UTC+3) reactor number four at the Chernobyl plant, near Pripyat in the Ukrainian SSR, suffered a massive, catastrophic power excursion, resulting in a steam explosion, which tore the top from the reactor. Further explosions and the resulting fire sent a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive geographical area. Nearly thirty to forty times more fallout was released than had been by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
It was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history and the only instance so far of level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale, resulting in a severe release of radioactivity into the environment following a massive power excursion which destroyed the reactor. Two people died in the initial steam explosion, but most deaths from the accident were attributed to fallout.

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 05/07/2009 04:37:58 PM
oh my, you've been there!!
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 12/27/2008 05:06:07 AM
Haunting. Your toning combined with the overcast day really contribute well to the desolation of this place.
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