Food in the zone is toxic, people working or visiting are told not to eat anything found there. The few restaurants that have been set up to cater for the people working near Chernobyl must get food delivered to them from far outside the zone and even then there are still risks of contamination.
One of [...]
Mushrooms
Present Day
Today Prypiat and Chernobyl are visited by thousands of tourists each year, eager to witness the ghostly remains of a once properous town and get up close to the now infamous Reactor number 4 sarcophagus, the concrete housing which encases the power plant.
The current sarcophagus is starting to collapse since its creation was rushed, there [...]
Prypiat
The Chernobyl Power Plant is named after the city Chernobyl, located 9 miles south south-east of the plant. To help the new workers at the plant a sister city was built, called Prypiat.
Built as a testament to the New Soviet way of life, and the Power plant as a shining example of soviet engineering, Life [...]
Modern References
Today Chernobyl is used as a backdrop for a few different games, the most recent being Activisions Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which uses Prypiat as a setting for missions and the disaster itself as part of the plot.
Terrorists break into the Chernobyl power plant and steal nuclear material to sell on the black [...]
Chernobyl Disaster
On 26th april 1986, the number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat in Ukraine exploded creating one of the worlds worst nuclear plant disasters in history. The Chernobyl Forum published a report in 2005, led by the International Atomic Energy Agency and World Health Organization , attributed as few as 56 deaths, 47 of them being accident workers, directly to the incident. Although many [...]
