Chernobyl trip

Went with my dear friend and colleague Mads to Chernobyl, Ukraine. An amazing and terrifying experience to an exclusion zone full of radiation and spooky spots. A zone where one of the worlds biggest nuclear disasters occurred on the 26. April, 1986.

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Driving to the zone takes some two hours from the capital of Kiev (70 miles)
Where: somewhere between Kiev and Chernobyl, Ukraine 

Entering Chernobyl
Where: exclusion zone, Chernobyl, Ukraine 

This doll was SO radioactive!
Where: exclusion zone, Chernobyl, Ukraine 

Kindergarten
Where: exclusion zone, Chernobyl, Ukraine 

Right in front of the Chernobyl chimney. It's now taken down and will be covered by the construction of a shelter (New Safe Confinement (NSC)).
Where: exclusion zone, the heart of the disaster, Chernobyl, Ukraine  

You need to bring a guide, and so we did. The wall to the right is a part of the new construction to embed the reactor 4, where the nuclear meltdown broke out.
Where: exclusion zone, the heart of the disaster, Chernobyl, Ukraine 

Inside a random building with large drawings of old Soviet leaders
Where: exclusion zone, Pripyat town, Chernobyl area, Ukraine 

Supermarket
Where: exclusion zone, Pripyat, Ukraine

Before disaster / after disaster
Where: exclusion zone, Pripyat, Ukraine

"Hotel Policia" - the big hotel in the center square of Prypiat
Where: exclusion zone, Pripyat, Ukraine

Soviet advertising
Where: exclusion zone, In a forest, Pripyat, Ukraine

A dilapiadated amusementpark
Where: exclusion zone, Pripyat, Ukraine

Someone ones lived here
Where: exclusion zone, Near Pripyat, Ukraine

Kindergarten beds
Where: exclusion zone, Pripyat, Ukraine

Chernobyl disaster memorial
Where: exclusion zone, Chernobyl, Ukraine

The central square of Prypiat
Where: exclusion zone, Pripyat, Ukraine

Radioactive cleansing. Check. Control before leaving and headin' back to the real world.
Where: the last exit-piont of the exclusion zone, Chernobyl

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