";s:4:"text";s:5280:" We had two homes for us to sleep in, and a third house where we would communally eat.I stayed at one small house, along with our guide. All four were located side-by-side, just outside the Pripyat city limits.Construction began on Chernobyl reactor five and six – they’ll never be finished.I remember the Chernobyl disaster. Thus (assuming that no other major disasters occur) while the meltdown will severely damage the reactor itself, possibly contaminating the whole structure with highly radioactive material, a meltdown alone should … Late one night, he didn’t seem as relaxed as normal.“Nate, I’ve never been inside the reactor, and I’m a little scared of the radiation tomorrow.”We received special permission to tour through Chernobyl reactor number two, just meters away from the most dangerous piece of human waste on the entire planet. Many rooms were not only cold but also dark. Apparently, they’re looking for “volunteers” to enter reactor four to take some measurements and readings. It’s just added fuel to that burning fire.Thanks Luke. Your documentary of places further explored off the beaten track is exactly what I wanted to witness myself.
In places, the floors seem to be melting.Joining the four reactors, the main thoroughfare is a straight passage hundreds of meters long known as the “Golden Corridor”. A nuclear reactor is a key device of nuclear power plants, nuclear research facilities or nuclear propelled ships. We would be inside for a couple of hours, and our thin jacket-less uniforms were more appropriate for spring break in Florida.Unfortunately, there isn’t enough money in Chernobyl to buy warm jackets.
Our home for three days became a loose collection of three houses in a small village on the edge of the Exclusion Zone. The city attracted a skilled workforce who assembled the first nuclear power plant on Ukrainian soil, and soon became one of the most desirable places to live in all of the USSR.Although many Soviet-era closed-cities were guarded and off-limits to outsiders, visiting Pripyat wasn’t as restricted. Behind the array there’s a pile of, something, loosely covered with a transparent plastic sheet, haphazardly stacked behind a couple of small, crooked, warning signs joined together by a single piece of flimsy barrier tape. Although the Soviet’s knew how to quickly build a nuclear power station, dismantling the remaining Chernobyl reactors is not scheduled to be completed for another sixty-five years.“This is Ukraine, we have no money, and the sixty-five-year plan was the cheapest option.” He laughed.Anton was an affable employee of the power station, our guide throughout the Chernobyl reactor tour. War. They generally use uranium and its product plutonium as nuclear fuel, though a thorium fuel cycle is also possible. This may be a secret place for Chernobyl tourists, but it’s just the local church to the many people that once lived around here.Although Chernobyl tourism is increasing, the Zone isn’t exactly a hot-bed of camera-slinging tourists. With three full days to lead our group, this time we really wanted to see more than the usual Chernobyl tour. We all had personal dosimeters attached to our thin white coats, to be checked for our accumulated dosage at the end of our unique tour. Here, every second of close exposure provides the same radioactive dosage as one-thousand chest x-rays.