Control Room 3, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Since autumn 2019, the power plant authorities have included it on official tours. Now stripped of many of its fittings and cleaned of dust, it has been declared safe for visitors. Control Room 4, the room where the 1986 disaster originated. In Chernobyl: A Stalkers’ Guide, Richter shares glimpses of the incredible access he had to a site that continues to send chills down the spine of people around the world. After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, part of the Soviet Union - now in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia - was cordoned off because of the resulting radiation and other dangers.Äecades later, author Darmon Richter traveled to the strange Cold War-era site to take photographs of the eerie ghost towns and structures of a bygone age that continue s to live on in the public imagination as one of the most serious follies of the 20th century. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has become the stuff of myth and legend. (all images courtesy the author and FUEL) A tame fox poses in front of the sign pointing the way to Pripyat from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
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