Download Pripyat Population After Disaster Pics. Named after the nearby river pripyat, the city was founded on february 4, 1970, as the ninth nuclear city. The population of pripyat (49 thousand people) was exposed to radiation 90 times more than when the bomb chernobyl disaster facts for children.
Pripyat ferris wheel stands as a testament to the tragedy. The ghostly remains of chernobyl and the abandoned nearby town of pripyat have been captured by an adventure photographer 32 years after the nuclear disaster. It was supposed to open on may 1.
The city of pripyat, ukraine (population 45,000) was completely evacuated after the chernobyl disaster.
But thirty years after its reactor number four exploded in a pillar of radioactive smoke, the abandoned wasteland around the chernobyl nuclear power station is today, the crumbling apartment blocks and overgrown streets of pripyat are infamous across the globe as symbols of what can happen when. The chernobyl disaster of april 26, 1986 in pripyat, ukraine remains the most catastrophic nuclear accident of the 20th century. A child's shoes left behind in an abandoned nursery in the city of pripyat. But thirty years after its reactor number four exploded in a pillar of radioactive smoke, the abandoned wasteland around the chernobyl nuclear power station is today, the crumbling apartment blocks and overgrown streets of pripyat are infamous across the globe as symbols of what can happen when.