Komatsu D155W was an amphibious remote controlled bulldozer produced in Japan from 1971 until 1993. It can be found between the office building and the main production hall of the…
Author: Forgotten Chernobyl
Another visit to “Emerald” children’s summer camp in April 2018. This idyllic place hidden only few steps from the main road in the deep woods by the cooling pond was…
I present you a unique and detailed chronicle of events following the Chernobyl Disaster between 1986 and 1993. Published by the Red Cross in Ukrainian and English, it focuses…
Chornobyl: Ten Years of Overcome (Чорнобиль: десять років подолання) booklet was printed in 1996 to commemorate 10th anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster. It is in both Ukrainian and English and…
Most of you have heard of the Russian Woodpecker, but have you ever wondered what powered this massive structure? I have never seen any photographs from this place and it…
The old Checkpoint Pripyat with remains of thick lead oxide glass windows installed to protect the guards and dosimetrists in the nearby testing station from radiation.
Nowadays it is really difficult to find hidden gems in Pripyat. The city has been visited by hundreds of thousands of tourists, countless stalkers, explorers, and even vandals. While not…
Car ride from Kyiv to the Chernobyl Zone is not an exciting experience in itself, and most people eagerly check their phones, prepare cameras and chat about Chernobyl rather than…
RBMK-1000 reactors were 11.8m tall and 7m in diameter, therefore installing them inside the building required specialist equipment. There were two portal cranes capable of handling this task in the…
After the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the first place where the injured were hospitalized was the Pripyat Hospital No. 126. L.N. Moslencova, V.P. Belokon and A.I. Skachek…
It is January 1963, only three months have passed since the Cuban Missile Crisis where both superpowers were on the verge of escalating the ongoing tension into a full-scale nuclear…
This is one of the latest items in my collection of Chernobyl publications. The 18-pages long booklet titled “”SHELTER” 20 Years of Guaranteed Safety” tells the story of the Shelter…
On the 2nd of February 1984, operators at Ignalina NPP issued a note in which they described a sudden increase of reactivity caused by movement of the control rods…
Many of you have heard of Chernobylite by now – the latest game from a Polish game developer The Farm 51. Chernobylite is (as of June 2020) an early access…
NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS There are events that enter, no, burst into human life triumphantly, and leave a bright mark forever. Such an event in October 1957 was the…