It's thought that a human being can absorb up to two roentgens per year without being affected
but the body is lethally contaminated if it receives over 400 roentgens. During that first
day the inhabitants absorbed over 50 times what is considered to be a harmless dose.
Passport contro,l prepare your passport.
These are some of the heavily contaminated vehicles used at the time of the cleanup in 86.
So the town was evacuated on the second day after the explosions, accident was
at night from April 25-26 and people were located just from 2 p.m April 27
so they used about 2 000 buses trains river boats for evacuation and very fast all people
left the city, so they were it was recommended to take food clothes documents everything with
calculation on three days, so in three days all people were promised to come back here -
sure - nobody came back and close to the autumn of 1986 when people got new apartments
in Kiev, because everything was compensated to the people and they got new apartments,
they got a money compensation for all abandoned stuff here, but some of them decided to go back
so about autumn some inhabitants returned here to remove most important stuff from their apartments.
The most amazing thing is it's just frozen in time - it's 1986 soviet union.
It's just so eerie this place, it's had all the life sucked out.
This was Pripyat's main gymnasium
This was Pripyat secondary school number two, until April 1986.
Every
soviet child
was obviously taught
the words of Gagarin
not to mention the teachings of Lenin
Well that is the infamous reaction number four where the explosion took place
and that is the huge steel sarcophagus
constructed in about six months in 1986 at pretty appalling human cost