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World - Various Ghost Cities - 18 Oct 2016

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  • Apr 11, 2011 - Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA - The town of Centralia, Pennsylvania stands nearly abandoned after a mine fire which began in 1962 still burns to this day. Unhealthy levels of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide make their way to the surface forcing the exodus of Centralia's residents. (Credit Image: © Nicolaus Czarnecki/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • View through windows of disused building in desert ghost town (Credit Image: © Axiom/ZUMApress.com)
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  • Apr 11, 2011 - Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA - The town of Centralia, Pennsylvania stands nearly abandoned after a mine fire which began in 1962 still burns to this day. Unhealthy levels of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide make their way to the surface forcing the exodus of Centralia's residents. (Credit Image: © Nicolaus Czarnecki/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows an abandoned building in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Apr 11, 2011 - Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA - The town of Centralia, Pennsylvania stands nearly abandoned after a mine fire which began in 1962 still burns to this day. Unhealthy levels of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide make their way to the surface forcing the exodus of Centralia's residents. (Credit Image: © Nicolaus Czarnecki/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows the interior of an abandoned building in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows the interior of an abandoned building in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows the interior of an abandoned building in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows an abandoned building in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Tourists walk in the corridor of the abandoned hospital in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia, Nov. 23, 2013. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Chilling tour in the haunting remains of the Chernobyl site 30 years on ..When 29 years ago a mile-tall blue flame shot high into the sky, burning a hole in the ozone layer, the eyes of the world focused on the human-made volcano - Soviet Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - spewing 400 times more radioactive load than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. .It was the Cold War, so American satellites were zooming in on the plant, now with a glowing red spot, much like a fresh gunshot wound on Earth's surface, bleeding plutonium..'We did not know that death could be so beautiful,' said those who saw it from the model Soviet town of Pripyat, built specially for the employees of the plant, clean and church-less. ..Ukraine is holding commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl..Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986..The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history..An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe..©Michal Huniewich/Exclusivepix Media (Credit Image: © Exclusivepix media via ZUMA Press)
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  • Chilling tour in the haunting remains of the Chernobyl site 30 years on ..When 29 years ago a mile-tall blue flame shot high into the sky, burning a hole in the ozone layer, the eyes of the world focused on the human-made volcano - Soviet Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - spewing 400 times more radioactive load than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. .It was the Cold War, so American satellites were zooming in on the plant, now with a glowing red spot, much like a fresh gunshot wound on Earth's surface, bleeding plutonium..'We did not know that death could be so beautiful,' said those who saw it from the model Soviet town of Pripyat, built specially for the employees of the plant, clean and church-less. ..Ukraine is holding commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl..Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986..The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history..An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe..©Michal Huniewich/Exclusivepix Media (Credit Image: © Exclusivepix media via ZUMA Press)
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  • Mar 27, 2016 - Chernobyl, Ukraine - The farmstead of one of those who returned after been evicted from the site in 1986 after the nuclear disaster. Ukraine marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster on April 26, 1986. (Credit Image: © Sergii Kharchenko via ZUMA Wire)
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  • April 22, 2016 - Chernoby, Ukraine - A general view shows the amusement park of the deserted city of Pripyat, near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, 11 April 2016. The explosion of Unit 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the early hours of 26 April 1986 is still regarded as the biggest accident in the history of nuclear power generation. An estimated 47,000 people of the city of Pripyat were evacuated after the explosion in 1986. Ukrainians will mark the 30 anniversary of Chernobyl's tragedy on 26 April 2016. (Credit Image: © Nazar Furyk via ZUMA Wire)
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  • Chilling tour in the haunting remains of the Chernobyl site 30 years on ..When 29 years ago a mile-tall blue flame shot high into the sky, burning a hole in the ozone layer, the eyes of the world focused on the human-made volcano - Soviet Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - spewing 400 times more radioactive load than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. .It was the Cold War, so American satellites were zooming in on the plant, now with a glowing red spot, much like a fresh gunshot wound on Earth's surface, bleeding plutonium..'We did not know that death could be so beautiful,' said those who saw it from the model Soviet town of Pripyat, built specially for the employees of the plant, clean and church-less. ..Ukraine is holding commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl..Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986..The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history..An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe..©Michal Huniewich/Exclusivepix Media (Credit Image: © Exclusivepix media via ZUMA Press)
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  • Chilling tour in the haunting remains of the Chernobyl site 30 years on ..When 29 years ago a mile-tall blue flame shot high into the sky, burning a hole in the ozone layer, the eyes of the world focused on the human-made volcano - Soviet Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - spewing 400 times more radioactive load than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. .It was the Cold War, so American satellites were zooming in on the plant, now with a glowing red spot, much like a fresh gunshot wound on Earth's surface, bleeding plutonium..'We did not know that death could be so beautiful,' said those who saw it from the model Soviet town of Pripyat, built specially for the employees of the plant, clean and church-less. ..Ukraine is holding commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl..Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986..The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history..An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe..©Michal Huniewich/Exclusivepix Media (Credit Image: © Exclusivepix media via ZUMA Press)
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  • Chilling tour in the haunting remains of the Chernobyl site 30 years on ..When 29 years ago a mile-tall blue flame shot high into the sky, burning a hole in the ozone layer, the eyes of the world focused on the human-made volcano - Soviet Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - spewing 400 times more radioactive load than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. .It was the Cold War, so American satellites were zooming in on the plant, now with a glowing red spot, much like a fresh gunshot wound on Earth's surface, bleeding plutonium..'We did not know that death could be so beautiful,' said those who saw it from the model Soviet town of Pripyat, built specially for the employees of the plant, clean and church-less. ..Ukraine is holding commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl..Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986..The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history..An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe..©Michal Huniewich/Exclusivepix Media (Credit Image: © Exclusivepix media via ZUMA Press)
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  • Chilling tour in the haunting remains of the Chernobyl site 30 years on ..When 29 years ago a mile-tall blue flame shot high into the sky, burning a hole in the ozone layer, the eyes of the world focused on the human-made volcano - Soviet Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - spewing 400 times more radioactive load than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. .It was the Cold War, so American satellites were zooming in on the plant, now with a glowing red spot, much like a fresh gunshot wound on Earth's surface, bleeding plutonium..'We did not know that death could be so beautiful,' said those who saw it from the model Soviet town of Pripyat, built specially for the employees of the plant, clean and church-less. ..Ukraine is holding commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl..Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986..The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history..An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe..©Michal Huniewich/Exclusivepix Media (Credit Image: © Exclusivepix media via ZUMA Press)
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  • Chilling tour in the haunting remains of the Chernobyl site 30 years on ..When 29 years ago a mile-tall blue flame shot high into the sky, burning a hole in the ozone layer, the eyes of the world focused on the human-made volcano - Soviet Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - spewing 400 times more radioactive load than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. .It was the Cold War, so American satellites were zooming in on the plant, now with a glowing red spot, much like a fresh gunshot wound on Earth's surface, bleeding plutonium..'We did not know that death could be so beautiful,' said those who saw it from the model Soviet town of Pripyat, built specially for the employees of the plant, clean and church-less. ..Ukraine is holding commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl..Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986..The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history..An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe..©Michal Huniewich/Exclusivepix Media (Credit Image: © Exclusivepix media via ZUMA Press)
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  • Chilling tour in the haunting remains of the Chernobyl site 30 years on ..When 29 years ago a mile-tall blue flame shot high into the sky, burning a hole in the ozone layer, the eyes of the world focused on the human-made volcano - Soviet Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - spewing 400 times more radioactive load than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. .It was the Cold War, so American satellites were zooming in on the plant, now with a glowing red spot, much like a fresh gunshot wound on Earth's surface, bleeding plutonium..'We did not know that death could be so beautiful,' said those who saw it from the model Soviet town of Pripyat, built specially for the employees of the plant, clean and church-less. ..Ukraine is holding commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl..Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986..The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history..An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe..©Michal Huniewich/Exclusivepix Media (Credit Image: © Exclusivepix media via ZUMA Press)
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  • Chilling tour in the haunting remains of the Chernobyl site 30 years on ..When 29 years ago a mile-tall blue flame shot high into the sky, burning a hole in the ozone layer, the eyes of the world focused on the human-made volcano - Soviet Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - spewing 400 times more radioactive load than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. .It was the Cold War, so American satellites were zooming in on the plant, now with a glowing red spot, much like a fresh gunshot wound on Earth's surface, bleeding plutonium..'We did not know that death could be so beautiful,' said those who saw it from the model Soviet town of Pripyat, built specially for the employees of the plant, clean and church-less. ..Ukraine is holding commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl..Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986..The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history..An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe..©Michal Huniewich/Exclusivepix Media (Credit Image: © Exclusivepix media via ZUMA Press)
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  • Chilling tour in the haunting remains of the Chernobyl site 30 years on ..When 29 years ago a mile-tall blue flame shot high into the sky, burning a hole in the ozone layer, the eyes of the world focused on the human-made volcano - Soviet Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - spewing 400 times more radioactive load than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. .It was the Cold War, so American satellites were zooming in on the plant, now with a glowing red spot, much like a fresh gunshot wound on Earth's surface, bleeding plutonium..'We did not know that death could be so beautiful,' said those who saw it from the model Soviet town of Pripyat, built specially for the employees of the plant, clean and church-less. ..Ukraine is holding commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl..Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986..The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history..An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe..©Michal Huniewich/Exclusivepix Media (Credit Image: © Exclusivepix media via ZUMA Press)
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  • Chilling tour in the haunting remains of the Chernobyl site 30 years on ..When 29 years ago a mile-tall blue flame shot high into the sky, burning a hole in the ozone layer, the eyes of the world focused on the human-made volcano - Soviet Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - spewing 400 times more radioactive load than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. .It was the Cold War, so American satellites were zooming in on the plant, now with a glowing red spot, much like a fresh gunshot wound on Earth's surface, bleeding plutonium..'We did not know that death could be so beautiful,' said those who saw it from the model Soviet town of Pripyat, built specially for the employees of the plant, clean and church-less. ..Ukraine is holding commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl..Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986..The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history..An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe..©Michal Huniewich/Exclusivepix Media (Credit Image: © Exclusivepix media via ZUMA Press)
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  • Chilling tour in the haunting remains of the Chernobyl site 30 years on ..When 29 years ago a mile-tall blue flame shot high into the sky, burning a hole in the ozone layer, the eyes of the world focused on the human-made volcano - Soviet Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - spewing 400 times more radioactive load than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. .It was the Cold War, so American satellites were zooming in on the plant, now with a glowing red spot, much like a fresh gunshot wound on Earth's surface, bleeding plutonium..'We did not know that death could be so beautiful,' said those who saw it from the model Soviet town of Pripyat, built specially for the employees of the plant, clean and church-less. ..Ukraine is holding commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl..Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986..The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history..An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe..©Michal Huniewich/Exclusivepix Media (Credit Image: © Exclusivepix media via ZUMA Press)
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  • Chilling tour in the haunting remains of the Chernobyl site 30 years on ..When 29 years ago a mile-tall blue flame shot high into the sky, burning a hole in the ozone layer, the eyes of the world focused on the human-made volcano - Soviet Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - spewing 400 times more radioactive load than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. .It was the Cold War, so American satellites were zooming in on the plant, now with a glowing red spot, much like a fresh gunshot wound on Earth's surface, bleeding plutonium..'We did not know that death could be so beautiful,' said those who saw it from the model Soviet town of Pripyat, built specially for the employees of the plant, clean and church-less. ..Ukraine is holding commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl..Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986..The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history..An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe..©Michal Huniewich/Exclusivepix Media (Credit Image: © Exclusivepix media via ZUMA Press)
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  • Chilling tour in the haunting remains of the Chernobyl site 30 years on ..When 29 years ago a mile-tall blue flame shot high into the sky, burning a hole in the ozone layer, the eyes of the world focused on the human-made volcano - Soviet Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - spewing 400 times more radioactive load than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. .It was the Cold War, so American satellites were zooming in on the plant, now with a glowing red spot, much like a fresh gunshot wound on Earth's surface, bleeding plutonium..'We did not know that death could be so beautiful,' said those who saw it from the model Soviet town of Pripyat, built specially for the employees of the plant, clean and church-less. ..Ukraine is holding commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl..Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986..The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history..An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe..©Michal Huniewich/Exclusivepix Media (Credit Image: © Exclusivepix media via ZUMA Press)
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  • Chilling tour in the haunting remains of the Chernobyl site 30 years on ..When 29 years ago a mile-tall blue flame shot high into the sky, burning a hole in the ozone layer, the eyes of the world focused on the human-made volcano - Soviet Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant - spewing 400 times more radioactive load than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. .It was the Cold War, so American satellites were zooming in on the plant, now with a glowing red spot, much like a fresh gunshot wound on Earth's surface, bleeding plutonium..'We did not know that death could be so beautiful,' said those who saw it from the model Soviet town of Pripyat, built specially for the employees of the plant, clean and church-less. ..Ukraine is holding commemorations to mark the 30th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl..Sirens were sounded at the same moment as the first explosion at the reactor, in the early hours of 26 April 1986..The meltdown at the plant remains the worst nuclear disaster in history..An uncontrolled reaction blew the roof off, spewing out a cloud of radioactive material which drifted across Ukraine's borders, into Russia, Belarus and across a swathe of northern Europe..©Michal Huniewich/Exclusivepix Media (Credit Image: © Exclusivepix media via ZUMA Press)
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  • April 24, 2015 - Chernobyl, Ukraine - Ukraine. Pripyat. Chernobyl. Jevgenie Markovitjs. 77 years old. Several hundred elderly people called samosels (self-settlers or autonomous returnees) have returned to their homes within the Zone after being evacuated after the nuclear accident in 1986. They are hardy soles who survive on their own, with little to no help from the government. (Credit Image: © Hans Van Rhoon/ZUMA Wire/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • April 19, 2016 - Chernobyl - A doll with a gas mask in a deserted school in Pripyat city near Chernobyl, Ukraine. Chernobyl, a place replete with horrific memories in northern Ukraine, close to Belarus, is now open to tourists, almost 30 years to the date after a nuclear power plant there exploded. It was the worst nuclear accident in human history. A large tract of land around the plant was designated a forbidden zone and ordinary people were completely prohibited from entering after the disaster occurred on April 26, 1986. The accident released more than 8 tons of radioactive leaks, directly contaminated an area of over 60,000 square kilometers and exposed some 3.2 million people to dangerous levels of radiation. (Credit Image: © Dai Tianfang/Xinhua via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • September 12, 2016 - Ordos, Ordos, China - Ordos, CHINA-?September 12 2016:?(EDITORIAL?USE?ONLY.?CHINA?OUT) Urban scenery of Ordos in north China¡¯s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Ordos is known for its lavish government projects, including the new Ordos City, a large city with abundant infrastructure, seldom used by residents and frequently described as a ''ghost city' (Credit Image: © SIPA Asia via ZUMA Wire)
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  • March 23, 2011 - Centrailia, Pennsylvania, United States - The former route of PA Route 61 now blocked and terminated due to a coal mine fire started in 1962 which has split the highway. Centralia is virtually a ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania which was abandoned as a result of a coal mine fire burning beneath the town since 1962. The fire burned for decades and spread into old underground coal mines until 1984 when the fire made the town uninhabitable due to noxious fumes and the earth caving in. The town went from a population in 1984 of a 1000 to less than 10 in 2010. It has not been possible to extinguish the fire and it burns on a never ending supply of coal to this day. (Credit Image: © Louie Palu/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Apr 11, 2011 - Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA - The town of Centralia, Pennsylvania stands nearly abandoned after a mine fire which began in 1962 still burns to this day. Unhealthy levels of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide make their way to the surface forcing the exodus of Centralia's residents. (Credit Image: © Nicolaus Czarnecki/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Apr 11, 2011 - Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA - The town of Centralia, Pennsylvania stands nearly abandoned after a mine fire which began in 1962 still burns to this day. Unhealthy levels of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide make their way to the surface forcing the exodus of Centralia's residents. (Credit Image: © Nicolaus Czarnecki/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • Apr 11, 2011 - Centralia, Pennsylvania, USA - The town of Centralia, Pennsylvania stands nearly abandoned after a mine fire which began in 1962 still burns to this day. Unhealthy levels of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide make their way to the surface forcing the exodus of Centralia's residents. (Credit Image: © Nicolaus Czarnecki/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Photo taken on Nov. 23, 2013 shows the interior of the abandoned hospital in ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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  • WINDHOEK, Nov. 25, 2013  Tourists visit ''Ghost Town'' Kolmanskop, Namibia, Nov. 23, 2013. Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib desert in southern Namibia. In 1908 a diamond was found in this area, which led to a huge and frantic diamond rush by German settlers. Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, school, casino and even an x-ray-station. The town declined after World War I when the diamond field slowly exhausted and was ultimately abandoned in 1954. Now it is a popular tourist destination. (Xinhua/Gao Lei) (Credit Image: å© Gao Lei/Xinhua/ZUMAPRESS.com)
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