Prypjat Ferris Wheel
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BlueGerbil
N 51° 24.473 E 030° 03.345
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This ferris wheel is one of the most famous ferris wheels in the whole world - even if it wasn´t used once. It´s located in the abandoned city of Prypjat, not far from Czernobyl, where a nuclear reactor exploded on April, 26th 1986.
Waymark Code: WMDNXX
Location: Ukraine
Date Posted: 02/07/2012
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This ferris wheel is one of the famous ferris wheels in the whole world - even if it wasn´t used once. It´s located in the abandoned city of Prypjat, not far from Czernobyl, where a nuclear reactor exploded on April, 26th 1986 and caused one of the worst nuclear disasters ever. In fact it was one of two "level seven" disasters on the International Nuclear Event Scala (INES).
A power surge during a test procedure resulted in a criticality accident, leading to a powerful steam explosion and fire that released a significant fraction of core material into the environment, resulting in a death toll of 56 as well as estimated 4,000 additional cancer fatalities (official WHO estimate) among people exposed to elevated doses of radiation. As a result, the city of Chernobyl (pop. 14,000) was largely abandoned, the larger city of Pripyat (pop. 49,400) was completely abandoned, and a 30 km exclusion zone was established.
The wheel is located in the "exclusion zone" - a zone where one can only enter with the right permits. Please be very careful, there are still areas of very high radioactive contamination.
Visit Instructions:
Please take at least 1 picture of your Ferris Wheel.