This weekend I decided to try a game similar to, but oh so different from, my beloved STALKER series.
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The Chernobyl Disaster – Calls To The Pripyat Fire Dispatch
Today marks 32 years since the explosion at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in the Ukraine. While there isn’t too much to say today that I haven’t said in many previous articles on the disaster, I do have a few things to share. EDIT 6/13/2019: Wow, this entry is getting rather popular. […]
Chernobyl: 31 Years Later
It’s been 31 years since the Chernobyl Disaster, an event, alongside the 2011 Fukushimi Daiichi disaster, that ranks as the worst nuclear disaster in history. Last year, for the 30th anniversary, I covered the disaster in some detail. In the year since then, the Chernobyl remains have since, finally, been covered with a permanent shelter […]
Pripyat
Since hearing about the movement and successful installation of the Shelter Object at the remains of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, I’ve been in a weak version what I call a “Chernobyl” mood, where I’ve been hunting for information, photos, and videos of the subject off and on this past month. Nothing too out of […]
The Chernobyl Shelter Object Is Safely In Place Over Reactor 4
File this one under news that reached me 2 weeks after the fact, in late November of 2016, the Shelter Object, a massive arch intended to seal the remains of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Reactor 4 was successfully moved over the structure with the intent of forever sealing the damaged reactor and its deadly nuclear […]
30 Years Later: The Chernobyl Disaster
On the morning of Saturday, April 26th, 1986, at 1:23 AM local time just outside the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, reactor #4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station exploded, releasing several tons of radioactive material into the atmosphere, covering both the area immediately around the power station but also depositing dangerous amounts of material in […]
The Chernobyl Disaster: 27 years later
It was during the early morning hours of April 26th, 1986. The governing bodies within the Soviet Union wanted to conduct another test of the backup power systems of one of it’s nuclear power plants; Namely, the the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station, located near the city of Chernobyl, in the northern Ukraine. It was […]