The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 209, Issues 4-6National Geographic Society., 2006 - Geography |
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... Pripyat , built in the 1970s for the Cher- nobyl plant's personnel . “ It was fantastic . It was a warm town , lots ... Pripyat ( below ) . Local fallout plume 3,400 feet NEAR MISS Favorable winds kept this concentrated cloud of radio ...
... Pripyat , built in the 1970s for the Cher- nobyl plant's personnel . “ It was fantastic . It was a warm town , lots ... Pripyat ( below ) . Local fallout plume 3,400 feet NEAR MISS Favorable winds kept this concentrated cloud of radio ...
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... Pripyat today is used to study urban fallout patterns . Why ? Chernobyl resembled a giant dirty bomb , which spreads radiation with a conventional explosion . Present - day exclusion zone Original 30 - kilometer - radius evacuation zone ...
... Pripyat today is used to study urban fallout patterns . Why ? Chernobyl resembled a giant dirty bomb , which spreads radiation with a conventional explosion . Present - day exclusion zone Original 30 - kilometer - radius evacuation zone ...
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... Pripyat . By 5 p.m. the city was empty . Nineteen years later , in 2005 , a shivering crowd attends a midnight vigil in Slavutych , a city built in the late 1980s as a replacement for Pripyat . Thirty miles away , it housed workers who ...
... Pripyat . By 5 p.m. the city was empty . Nineteen years later , in 2005 , a shivering crowd attends a midnight vigil in Slavutych , a city built in the late 1980s as a replacement for Pripyat . Thirty miles away , it housed workers who ...
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Inside Chernobyl 32 Twenty years after a nuclear reactor exploded blanketing | 36 |
Glen Canyon Revealed 64 A sustained drought has shriveled Lake Powell in the Southwest | 72 |
COVER U S soldiers patrol devastated Market Street in San Francisco | 120 |
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