Showing posts with label ruins. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ruins. Show all posts

Chernobyl MegaTomb: a Gigantic Building designed to keep the Atomic Waste Contained so it won't blow Downwind and Poison Europe.

Remember... Never Build an Atomic Power Plant.  They Sometimes "Do the Fukushima!" It's safe to assume that Diablo Canyon or San Onofre in California will experience a severe earthquake... They are Built on the San Andreas Fault Line... Would YOU want to Live DOWNWIND?






Headline: Chernobyl nuclear disaster – in pictures.

In the immediate aftermath of the explosion on 26 April, 1986, few were prepared to endure the massive radiation levels and document the disaster, but Russian photographer Igor Kostin did. 
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2011/apr/26/chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-in-pictures

$1.6B mega-project finally puts Chernobyl to rest...
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/240367-30-years-later-1-6b-mega-project-finally-puts-chernobyl-rest

Headline: Inside Chernobyl's New Safe Confinement Structure.
It has been two years since a giant steel shelter was slid into position over Chernobyl's crumbling radioactive ruins. The New Safe Confinement (NSC) was deployed in November 2016 to contain radiation from doomed the nuclear power plant for 100 years.