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[OfficerGoat]

Check this out. Its a photo journal. Very cool...

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/

[ASDadam]

Wow, amazing to see how desolate that area has become. The pics with all the vehicles and helicopters was crazy.

[magking1971]

That is the sadest thing I have ever seen.

[FalconGuy016]

That was... moving...
I really didnt expect everything to be left just like that. With all the villages around in that area there must be a lot of untold stories and things lost forever. It would be fun if I could somehow avoid the radiation and explore those lands, but I think I would be afraid of all the bodies I might find. The amount of equipment left there is insane, and the fact there there were people in every one of them unsettles me. Everything in those pictures show people's lives left as they were, its a weird thing to see. I never thought something like that could be possible... The wide variety of the pictures really gets you going, so many things you just wouldnt think about if you thought about a ghost town. Really sad

[Brak]

its incredible eerie, to know that there is now nobody at all in that whole place. its like a modern day pompei, im surprised there hasnt been a movie made about the event yet

[Mikey B]

thats interesting to see what its like there now. but what are the readings on the hand held device, i know its for radiation but how high does it have to be to get dangerous?

[phantomhitman]

that is amazing. great documentary of what shw experianced.

[painTech]

thats earie

[billybob_81067]

That would be such a cool place to play paintball!

Hmm... I wonder if I could buy up some of that land for cheap

[phantomhitman]

that would definitatly add a new element to scenario ball. if you camp in the wrong spot for too long you will glow in the dark the next day.

[rehme]

man that is very intressting.

what caused all of that i know it has something about a nuclear reactor or somthing to that degree.

[yeahthatsme]

wow....that was just amazing...and deeply moving...i think i'll try to travel there sometime in my life, it would be a very interesting thing to see. i guess that people that died there were taken away? i would guess that there would be bodies...

[painTech]

yeah. the dead got up and walked away.

[ASDadam]

To answer rehme's question, It was a nuclear reactor that blew back in the 80s. Some guy pressed the wrong button and sent the reactor into meltdown. I don't know the number of lives lost, but its countless. The nuclear dust/cloud whatver blew over the town you see in the photos and spread nuclear gas for hundreds if not thousands of miles.
To answer yeahthatsme, the bodies were buried in mass graves and also in the town cemetery. Also burried there were some of the reactor core that wasn't encased in concrete.

[ScatterPlot]

Wow... just wow. It reminds me of Silent Hill some, but it's real. Wow.