Lost Places - Chornobyl Zone

Вторая половина дня 23 декабря 2011 года. Два часа дороги и из сугробов и гололеда Регина Форест мы опять попадаем в теплую осень. Дорога пересекает западную часть «подковы» фукушимского следа. Уровень гамма-фона внутри нашего микроавтобуса, дойдя до 1,5 мкЗв/ч, начинает постепенно снижаться. Мы попадаем на территорию умеренного радиоактивного загрязнения. Въезжаем в Михару и паркуемся в центре городка возле здания мэрии. На улице уровень гамма-фона около 0,3 мкЗв/ч — почти чисто...

Departed yesterday, December 22, from warm and sunny as in autumn, Nihonmatsu and slept a couple hours in the van, we woke up in the snowy cold mountains district of Iwase (岩瀬郡), in Hatoriko Highland Regina Forest Resort.

Tokyo, December 22, 2011, 8:00 am. We, along with the crew of German TV channel ZDF, loading our stuff and equipment into a van and drive out to the shooting in Fukushima prefecture (福岛県). Since March 2011, it is the most famous Japanese prefecture, just like our Chornobyl, which became notorious throughout the world since April 1986.

November 11th, 2011 at 3 pm on the second stage of ChNPP (third and fourth units of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant) goes the process of installing a new ventilation stack. In connection with the construction of the NSC (new safe confinement) of the damaged Unit 4 ChNPP, it became necessary to replace the old ventilation stack and to install a new pipe, the smaller size. The height of the new shelter is a little over 100 meters and the old 150–meter pipe does not fit into the project. After installing the new ventilation stack, old pipe will be dismantled and the second stage of Chornobyl NPP (3 and 4 blocks) will lose forever its usual shape.