One of the worst energy disaster in human history was the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It has left a giant chunk of land around Pripyat uninhabitable to humans (although the rest of nature has been thriving because humans aren’t there), now the Ukrainian government wants to reuse the land for a new source of electricity. […]
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Continue readingIt’s been almost 30-years since the Chernobyl reactor catastrophe transformed the nearby city of Pripyat, Ukraine into a ghost town. British cinematographer, Danny Cooke, captured what remains of the city with a drone camera:
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