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March
2023:
Looking
back
to
December
2021.
In
1986
reactor
#4
at
the
Chernobyl
Power
Station
blew
up.
To
this
days
it
remains
the
world's
worst
nuclear
disaster.
With
Chernobyl's
proximity
to
Kyiv
we
definitely
had
to
go.
An
8am
bus
from
Kyiv's
main
train
station
followed
by
a
two
hour
drive
took
us
to
the
30
kilometre
(outer)
exclusion
zone.
Our
English
speaking
guides
were
knowledgeable,
informative
and
most
importantly
interesting.
No
one
wants
to
spend
an
entire
day
with
a
guide
who
has
suffered
a
'charisma
bypass'.
The
guides
must
have
done
this
tour
a
thousand
times
yet
it
did
not
seem
to
curb
their
enthusiasm.
Across
the
border
into
the
independently
managed
Chernobyl
exclusion
zone;
passports
checked,
all
in
order.
First
stop.
A
small
town
just
inside
the
zone
-
an
introduction
to
the
catastrophe
visited
on
this
area.
It
was
so
sad
to
see
the
decay,
the
result
of
35
years
of
abandonment.
The
smiley
kid's
slide
nodded
to
hope,
hope
of
past
generations
and
I
suppose
the
future.
Then
to
the
actual
town
of
Chernobyl,
an
old
settlement
founded
way
before
the
city
of
Pripyat
and
the
power
station
that
the
city
served.
In
the
town
of
Chernobyl
It
was
remarkable
to
see
people
getting
on
with
their
lives
-
one
guy
leisurely
walked
his
dog
whilst
visiting
the
shop.
You
could
forget
for
a
moment
that
you
were
actually
inside
the
zone,
but
only
for
a
moment.
The
second
checkpoint
followed
-
the
10
kilometre
zone.
A
long
winding
road
took
us
to
the
playground
for
children
that
turned
out
to
be
a
Soviet
Union
missile
defence
radar,
a
relic
of
the
Cold
War.
The
enormity
of
the
radar
known
as
Duga
was
mind-blowing.
Visiting
the
radar
takes
a
lot
of
time
out
of
the
day
but
I
wouldn't
change
it.
The
reactor
came
into
view
or
should
I
say
the
arch
that
entombs
it.
[pinch
yourself,
am
I
really
this
close?...
Yes].
Several
hundred
pictures
later
it
was
time
to
visit
the
last
stop
the
city
of
Pripyat.
Like
New
York
the
city
felt
familiar
because
we
have
seen
it
so
many
times
on
television.
It
was
awesome
but
decaying
so
fast
that
nature
will
overtake
it
in
a
few
years.
It
has
turned
into
the
most
unlikely
science
experiment.
The
highlight
and
unmistakable
image
of
the
Chernobyl
disaster
-
The
Ferris
Wheel
of
the
amusement
park
that
never
was.
The
tour
was
absolutely
brilliant.
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