Chernobyl cooling water lake.

[Moxi]

I was absently surfing google earth earlier and I popped over to look at the Chernobyl site and was astonished to see the once massive cooling water feed lake was almost completely drained now and overgrown.

https://earth.google.com/web/@51.379201 ... _____8BEAA

I recall that at one time the lake was infamous for the radioactive fish it was said it contained, considering it was a drain point for a lot of surface water run off around the station I am surprised that its been allowed to dry out ? I remember the Russians spent billions of Rubel's and decades to fill in the Lake Karachay when it started to dry up an release highly radioactive dust that had resulted from decades of dumping nuclear waste arising from the adjacent nuclear weapons research facilities.



Moxi

[nowty]

The abandoned city of Pripyat near it is still on my bucket list of "interesting" places to visit, I nearly went before COVID, then the war started so it may be some time before I make the visit, if ever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pripyat

I managed to drive my EV within 280 miles of it last month when visiting the "tri point" on the banks of the Bug river before being in Polish military custody for a few hours.
SWMBO still has me on the naughty step for that escapade.

[Moxi]

Worked on the de stillage unit for units 1 2 and 3 a while back but that was all done in Slovakia, nearly took a contract when they were building the new sarcophagus cover but got married instead.

I find it fascinating how the wildlife is continually adapting, good job mamma nature is smarter than mankind init!

Moxi

[Coriolis]

Jeremy Wade visited Chernobyl in River Monsters: