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Explore The Weird Ruins of Chernobyl Through the Eyes of a Drone (Video)

by | 29th, November 2014

Marina Pappas, left, and Chrisa Livanos, both mothers of students who returned from Kiev, hold up T-shirts reading "Kiev Was A Blast 1986" at Kennedy International Airport in New York, May 3, 1986. Twenty high school students and 11 adults from Long Island, who came within 80 miles of the Soviet nuclear accident, returned home three days early. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan)

Marina Pappas, left, and Chrisa Livanos, both mothers of students who returned from Kiev, hold up T-shirts reading “Kiev Was A Blast 1986” at Kennedy International Airport in New York, May 3, 1986. Twenty high school students and 11 adults from Long Island, who came within 80 miles of the Soviet nuclear accident, returned home three days early. (AP Photo/Susan Ragan)

 

The drone flew over Pripyat, the abandoned Ukrainian city once home to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (where the weird sponges grow).

Danny Cooke’s Postcards from Pripyat, shows us the wasteland inside the scar.

 

 

More here.

Spotter: Popular Mechanics



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