Location: City of Pripyat (near Chernobyl)
“The Chernobyl power station is situated near the Belarus-Ukraine border on the River Pripyat in a marshy, wooded area. Four kilometres away from the reactor complex lies the town of Pripyat, which was built especially for the power station employees. At the time of the accident, 45 000 people were housed there. A total of 76 settlements lay within a radius of 30 km around the reactor. 100 km to the south of the power station lies Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.”
Source: Informationskreis Kernenergie: Der Reaktorunfall, Bonn, 1996, p. 1 ff. (vergriffen), nachzulesen auf.
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Location: Nike Air force Base in Chatsworth, CA
“There’s an abandoned Nike Missle base at the top of a dirt road off the DeSoto exit of the 118 Fwy in Chatworth (San Fernando Valley). The LAPD still uses it for a firing range and there are lots of ‘No Trespassing signs.”
Source: Excerpt from The Lost Continent, by Bill Bryson
Location: City of Centralia, Pennsylvania
“The federal government came up with $42 million to evacuate the town in. As people moved out, their houses were bulldozed and the rubble was neatly, fastidiously cleared away until there were almost no building remaining. So today Centralia isn’t really even a ghost down. It’s just a big open space with a grid of empty streets still surreally furnished with stop signs and fire hydrants.”
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