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Destruction
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Gas masks
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KWCI (GPI)
Nuclear (campaign title)
Nuclear accidents
Nuclear energy
Nuclear radiation
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Gas Masks in Pripyat School
Gas masks in a Pripyat elementary school are another cruel paradox: A week before the nuclear accident children were trained to use safety equipment against nuclear danger. But no single gas mask was used in the day of accident because of an order from the party leadership.
Before the Chernobyl accident, the town of Pripyat was considered the "glory" of the former Soviet Union. More than 48,000 inhabitants were living here - less than 3 kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Many of them were employed directly in the power plant. Today Pripyat is like a ghost town.
In original language:
Gasmasken in Pripyater Grundschule
Gasmasken in einer Pripyater Grundschule sind ein weiteres grausames Paradox. Nur eine Woche vor der Tschernobyler Katastrophe waren die Schuelerinnen und Schueler im Gebrauch von "Rettungszubehoer" im Falle eines Atomunfalls unterwiesen worden. Aber keine einzige Gasmaske wurde am Tag des Unfalls benutzt Ð auf Grund einer Anordnung der Parteifuehrung. Vor dem Reaktorunfall von Tschernobyl galt die Stadt Pripyat als "Prunkstueck" der damaligen Sowjetunion. Mehr als 48.000 Menschen lebten hier Ð nur drei Kilometer vom Atomkraftwerk entfernt, wo viele Pripyater auch arbeiteten. Heute ist Pripyat eine Geisterstadt.
Unique identifier:
GP0310J
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
28/07/2005
Locations:
Eastern Europe
,
Pripyat
,
Ukraine
Credit line:
© Vaclav Vasku / Greenpeace
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
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Chernobyl 20 Years After the Nuclear Disaster
Documentation of regions and people affected by the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster, photographed nearly twenty years after the event.
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