Pripyat: a ghost town since the Chernobyl reactor exploded

Pripyat: a ghost town since the Chernobyl reactor exploded

In 2006, a team of journalists received exceptional permission to report in Pripryat, a ghost town since the Chernobyl reactor exploded. 80,000 people lived in that city and worked for the nuclear power plant. Three days after the disaster, the city, contaminated by radioactive dust, was completely evacuated and the inhabitants never returned. After a walk in the city with buildings and attractions invaded by vegetation, Youri TATARTCHUCK, acting head of "Chernobylinform" makes visit an abandoned housing while telling the circumstances of the evacuation, then leads the journalists into the empty school where everything remained as it was, in the precipation of departure.

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Publication date : 22 April 2006