[Information] Pripyat, Ukraine

[Foxtrot]

Pripyat in Ukraine is a place featured in the game. Captain MacMillan refers to the 50,000 people that lived there when that was actually the population of the city. Here some images of Pripyat that you might like to see:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/Prypiat_Pool.jpg


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Pripyat01.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Pripyat%2C_Ukraine%2C_abandoned_city.jpg

I think it's amazing since games rarely base events or locations on real life places.

[Royal-Marine-83]

yeah thats weird seeing them pics were did u find them

[Foxtrot]

I found them on Wikipedia but they are actual pictures from 2001.

[Royal-Marine-83]

cool so no one can life there any more

[Foxtrot]

I am not quite sure. There was only 30 people that died in the nuclear explosion but the rest died in the fallout. I think that was in 1985 and if it's reffered to as a 'ghost town' in CoD then I suppose it must be abandoned now.

[JmastaFlex]

there is a few youtube vids on this

[Unggoy1951]

Ahem, I'll just say why Pripyats a ghost town. Okidoki, at Chernobyl, you know, the Nuclear Power Plant, former Coal workers were put at work at Reactor 4. They had no experience with these types of Power Plants, and so made a huge mistake on the working of it. It soon began to overheat or something I think, and no one noticed it. Well eventually, it umm, exploded I think, and Pripyat was evacuated shortly after. S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Shadow Of Chernobyl, is in and around the Nuclear Plant, and playing it should give you a good idea of Pripyat and the disaster.

[bellis]

good information^^^

[effexx]

thats decent, i was surprised when i seen that picture. Good stuff man keep it up.

[birddogbird]

Google Earth
51 24 30.33N
30 03 20.44E
This brings you right to the ferris wheel. Tons of pics of Pripyat.
A must see.

[LFC_KopHero]

good stuff keep it up

[vbballmaster]

wow those are intense imagine seeing them in real life

[Black-Hawk-93]

Yeah, I think its really sad to see it. It is a ghost town now, nobody lives there because the amount of radiation still in the area, it would be impossible for anything and anyone to live there. Very sad. Chernobyl was a disaster that I hope will be a one and only and nothing else like this will occur.

The power plant is concreted up but radiation levels are still very high.

[Foxtrot]

I know. It is indeed quite tragic. I guess it just proves that we shouldn't mess with nuclear power. Infact, I'd go so far to say it actually scares me.

[DS-Hunter]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Shadow Of Chernobyl, is in and around the Nuclear Plant, and playing it should give you a good idea of Pripyat and the disaster.The first thing I could think of when playing that CoD mission 2 weeks ago was S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Impressive pictures. I think the scenery is quite well designed in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. as well as in Call of Duty 4.

[Black-Hawk-93]

http://pripyat.com/sm/site/photogallery/uploads/1717/22342.jpg
http://pripyat.com/sm/site/photogallery/uploads/1717/22302.jpg
http://pripyat.com/sm/site/photogallery/uploads/1717/22062.jpg

Really quite scary in some ways, how such a small thing resulted in such quantatious conseqences.

[LFC_KopHero]

thats scary how it destroyed so many people's lives

[AirDriver]

Wow almost like in the game.Includes the ferris wheel

[Scion33]

I am not quite sure. There was only 30 people that died in the nuclear explosion but the rest died in the fallout. I think that was in 1985 and if it's reffered to as a 'ghost town' in CoD then I suppose it must be abandoned now.

1987. a lot of people who died were firefighters who arrived on the scene and weren't aware of the conditions.


Ahem, I'll just say why Pripyats a ghost town. Okidoki, at Chernobyl, you know, the Nuclear Power Plant, former Coal workers were put at work at Reactor 4. They had no experience with these types of Power Plants, and so made a huge mistake on the working of it. It soon began to overheat or something I think, and no one noticed it. Well eventually, it umm, exploded I think, and Pripyat was evacuated shortly after. S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Shadow Of Chernobyl, is in and around the Nuclear Plant, and playing it should give you a good idea of Pripyat and the disaster.

They were running a test to shut the reactor down, to see if it could run, not skipping a beat, if there was a power shortage and had to go to it's backup, which normally took 20 seconds.

The day crew were trying this, but ran into a problem, so stopped and would let the night shift do it. The night shift removed all the safety mechanisms to run the test. The pressure built so high that it blew the 2000 ton cap right off.

The concrete structure over top of it was built in such a haste that it's falling apart, so there's plan to building a new one and have it done, or started by 2012, not sure.

I watched a documentary, well, some, that I believe was made 5 years ago regarding this incident. I couldn't watch it all, because they visited a hospital for babies born with deformities, most likely from the radiation and such in the area and the mutations were sickening and mad you feel bad, sick to your stomach. Another thing that came from this was Thyroid cancer, which was also found in the animals too.

In reality, a Swedish reactor plant discovered that something was wrong, when it detected high amounts of radiation.

It is believed that the radioactive particles launched into the air, fell pretty much all over Europe and even some in North America on the East coast. It is believed that the majority of it fell on Belarus, about 60%, but that was from a Russian report, which, the country at the time was in disoray (sp) and can't be taken as truth.

[XxSCRX8X10X7xX]

haha thats amazing even the swimming pool