https://maisonbisson.com/tags/chornobyl/ Recent content in chornobyl on MaisonBisson Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:49:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/twenty-years-and-a-day/ Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:49:34 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/twenty-years-and-a-day/ Mark Nelson’s Pripyat series on flickr is full of the pictures of desolation that people seem to be looking for as we solemnly honor the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-and-pripyat-satellite-photos/ Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:25:07 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-and-pripyat-satellite-photos/ Today, on the twentieth anniversary of the disaster, Google has added high-resolution satellite photos of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and the abandoned town of Pripyat. https://maisonbisson.com/post/twenty-years-ago-today/ Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:00:00 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/twenty-years-ago-today/ Twenty years ago today at 1:23:44, the Chernobyl NPP reactor number four exploded. Five thousand tons of lead, sand, and other materials were dropped on the resulting fire in an attempt to stop the spread of the radioactive cloud. https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-disaster-20-years-later/ Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:24:31 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-disaster-20-years-later/ Nearly 20 years after the initial events of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 26 1986, the story is still unfolding. https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-tour/ Sun, 21 Nov 2004 23:30:14 +0000 https://maisonbisson.com/post/chernobyl-tour/ update: there’s more pictures, even some video, and a bundle more nuclear and Chernobyl-related stories.