Ghost Town and Land of the Wolves - Chernobyl and circumjacent landscapes

Filatova Elena Vladimirovna, young Ukrainian and avid motorcyclist, runs a website on her impressions and thoughts she had when she was biking through the areas which have been contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident.
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There is something really sad about this town, for thousand years people lived here, great minds discussed ideas, average people discussed events, small minds talked about others... no voice is heard here now, wild boars stake out their homes, wolves survey the desolate territory, of a town built and destroyed by man, an abandoned domain that is theirs now...
Elena

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Land of the Wolves - Mesmerism
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On the Friday evening of April 25, 1986, the reactor crew at Chernobyl-4, prepared to run a test the next day to see how long the turbines would keep spinning and producing power if the electrical power supply went off line. This was a dangerous test, but it had been done before. As a part of the preparation, they disabled some critical control systems - including the automatic shutdown safety mechanisms.

Shortly after 1:00 AM on April 26, the flow of coolant water dropped and the power began to increase.

At 1:23 AM, the operator moved to shut down the reactor in its low power mode and a domino effect of previous errors caused an sharp power surge, triggering a tremendous steam explosion which blew the 1000 ton cap on the nuclear containment vessel and rised it in the air.

Radiation from the reactor's explosion was disbursed unevenly by the winds, as if in a chessboard fashion, leaving some places alive and others dead. It's hard to say where the fairyland begins.

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In the early 1980's

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