Introduction
This cache is placed in Pripyat near the Chernobyl Power plant. The only
way to go here is by visiting a Chernobyl tour from Kiev. The cache
is located near one of the most famous abandoned places; a fancy
fair from 1986 still standing outside in the air. As instructed by
your tour guide, you know how to act safely in this area. Please
take all care for you health and especially don’t touch the
moss. Enjoy this cache on one of the most unique places in the
world! Put the cache back at the EXACT same spot, no trading. Thank
you.
Rules
(totally follow
instructions)
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ONLY visit cache by Chernobyl tour from
Kiev
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USE the spoiler photo and only touch the cache
itself
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DON’T touch the vegetation at all
times
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DO NOT trade any item in/out the cache.
You’re not allowed to
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LOG cache in stealth mode by all times
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Take knowledge of the difficulty and attributes
for this cache
Pripyat
Pripyat was founded in 1970 to house workers for the
Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city
in 1979, but was abandoned in 1986 following the Chernobyl
disaster. It was the ninth nuclear city ("атомоград" (atomograd) in
Russian, literally "atom city") in the Soviet Union at its time.
Some facts:
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Population: 49,400 before the disaster. The
average age was about 26 years old. Total living space was 658,700
m2: 13,414 apartments in 160 apartment blocks, 18 halls
of residence accommodating up to 7,621 single males or females, and
8 halls of residence for married couples.
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Education: 15 primary schools for about 5,000
children, 5 secondary schools, 1 professional school.
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Healthcare: 1 hospital that could accommodate up
to 410 patients, and 3 clinics.
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Trade: 25 stores and malls; 27 cafes, cafeterias
and restaurants could serve up to 5,535 customers
simultaneously.
10 warehouses could hold 4,430
tons of goods.
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Culture: 3 facilities: a culture palace, a cinema
and a school of arts, with 8 different societies.
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Sports: 10 gyms, 3 indoor swimming-pools, 10
shooting galleries, 2 stadiums.
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Recreation: 1 park, 35 playgrounds, 18,136 trees,
249,247 shrubs, 33,000 rose plants.
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Industry: 4 factories with total annual turnover
of 477,000,000 rubles.
1 nuclear power plant.
Chernobyl Disaster
The Chernobyl disaster was a
nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl
Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian SSR (now Ukraine). An
explosion and fire released large quantities of radioactive
contamination into the atmosphere, which spread over much of
Western Russia and Europe. It is considered the worst nuclear power
plant accident in history, and is one of only two classified as a
level 7 event on the International Nuclear Event Scale (the other
being the Fukushima disaster).The battle to contain the
contamination and avert a greater catastrophe ultimately involved
over 500,000 workers and cost an estimated 18 billion rubles,
crippling the Soviet economy.
The disaster began during a systems test on 26
April 1986 at reactor number four of the Chernobyl plant, which is
near the town of Pripyat. There was a
sudden power output surge, and when an emergency shutdown was
attempted, a more extreme spike in power output occurred, which led
to a reactor vessel rupture and a series of explosions. These
events exposed the graphite moderator of the reactor to air,
causing it to ignite. The resulting fire sent a plume of highly
radioactive smoke fallout into the atmosphere and over an extensive
geographical area, including Pripyat.
The plume drifted over large parts of the western Soviet Union and
Europe. From 1986 to 2000, 350,400 people were evacuated and
resettled from the most severely contaminated areas of Belarus,
Russia, and Ukraine. According to official post-Soviet data, about
60% of the fallout landed in Belarus.
The accident raised concerns about the safety of
the Soviet nuclear power industry, as well as nuclear power in
general, slowing its expansion for a number of years and forcing
the Soviet government to become less secretive about its
procedures.
Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus have been burdened
with the continuing and substantial decontamination and health care
costs of the Chernobyl accident. Thirty one deaths are directly
attributed to the accident, all among the reactor staff and
emergency workers. A UNSCEAR report places the total confirmed
deaths from radiation at 64 as of 2008. Estimates of the number of
deaths potentially resulting from the accident vary enormously: the
World Health Organization (WHO) suggest it could reach 4,000;a
Greenpeace report puts this figure at 200,000 or more; a Russian
publication, Chernobyl, concludes that 985,000 excess deaths
occurred between 1986 and 2004 as a result of radioactive
contamination.
Small note on cache maintenance: Milyenko kindly assisted to help for local cache
maintenance.
