I just finished reading Piers Paul Read's Ablaze: The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl. (Pictured above: the ruins of reactor number 4 before it was encased in a concrete sarcophagus)
Above: Author Piers Paul Read
Above: The abandoned city of Pripyat.
Pripyat was designed and built in the early 1970s to provide a home town for the workers at the power plant. Apparently, Pripyat was a rather nice place to live - a brand-new, planned city with roses everywhere and surrounded by beautiful countryside. It also had very clean air because there were no coal-burning power plants near by. After the explosion and fire in 1986, Pripyat had to be permanently evacuated. For more information: http://www.chornobyl.in.ua/pripyat.htm
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