Chernobyl
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"Fifty thousand people used to live here. Now, it’s a ghost town."
Babushka's of Chernobyl is a good watch.
It's got what plants crave
Before was still quite pretty
You can clearly see that the "before" picture was taken years after the disaster....
The "after" is also fairly old - at least before the new safe confinement was built. Here's what it looked like around 6 years ago:
(Apologies for the quality, on mobile and had to shrink it to get it to upload)Or it could be the USSR where people cannot afford cars, there is no money for building mainenance and everyone is at work right now ... /s
You can clearly see plants growing out of the concrete, based on the videos that exists of Pripyat from before the disaster that is not what it looked like.
Pripyat was a privileged town where people lived well.
So you're telling me we should have more nuclear meltdowns?
The buildings fell down by themselves after decades of neglect or they were torn down?
No one touched them. Most are still standing, just now in a nearly 40 year old forest.
Nice quiet neighborhood with beautiful mature trees!
If you are interested in this, you have to see a youtube video of an adventurous guy with a channel called Shiey, backpacking to the region and staying overnight. Such an incredible journey.
Wow, what a glow up! The second greatest it experienced.
I remember reading a while ago that Chernobyl has become a flourishing nature preserve. While animals have a health risk from radiation, it's still a smaller health hazard than living near human settlements. It's sad that our civilization is more destructive than an open nuclear core.
I don't think it is fully understood, but there is some evidence that the wolves are becoming cancer resistant
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a46799706/mutant-wolves-of-chernobyl/
Must have a great town planning strategy.
!workersandresources@lemmy.world is just like that without the radiation (well, there are NPPs and radiation can affect public health, but it's not Tschernobyl: The Game and more Pripjat: 1960-1986)
Why is the powerplant's name in a weird language? Yeah, we first heard about the Chornobyl disaster through Russian-language news aired from Moscow, and they obviously used the translated name, "Chernobyl". But, that's like talking about "Londres" instead of London if you first happened to hear about some events in London through French news.
It's a place in Ukraine, and in Ukrainian it's Chornobyl.
Also, the powerplant was named after a somewhat nearby village. Then, because it needed a lot of workers, they founded a whole new city right next to the construction site of the Chornobyl powerplant. And that city was named Prypiat, according to the river flowing past it.
So, the photos are from the town of Prypiat, near the Chornobyl atomic power plant.
Soviet city planning: there are never enough trees
FYI it has been ~40 years
19,960 years left to go until it is habitable again
I bet I could live there and be fine. The pesky Russians might want to kick me out though