{"id":320529,"date":"2019-05-31T07:33:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T05:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=320529"},"modified":"2019-05-31T09:02:24","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T07:02:24","slug":"7-real-life-photos-from-chernobyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/320529\/7-real-life-photos-from-chernobyl\/","title":{"rendered":"7 real-life photos from Chernobyl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you haven\u2019t tuned in yet, HBO has produced a five-part miniseries about one of the worst disasters in human history. \u00a0You can watch Chernobyl on Wednesdays on <\/span><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/now.dstv.com\/\">DStv Now<\/a><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>.<\/strong> And if you happen to be on holiday in Kiev, Ukraine, you can take a day trip there if you fancy it. We\u2019re not sure you\u2019ll want to after seeing these images though.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chernobyl-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-308223\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chernobyl-1-640x428.png\" alt=\"Chernobyl 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abandoned carousel and abandoned ferris at an amusement park in the center of the city of Pripyat, the Chernobyl disaster, the exclusion zone, a ghost town.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chernobyl-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-308225\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chernobyl-2-640x430.png\" alt=\"Chernobyl 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abandoned Classroom in School number 5 of Pripyat, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chernobyl-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-308227\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chernobyl-3-640x426.png\" alt=\"Chernobyl 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Inside the hotel in abandoned Pripyat city in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chernobyl-4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-308229\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chernobyl-4-640x428.png\" alt=\"Chernobyl 4\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abandoned kindergarten in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Lost toys, A broken doll. Atmosphere of fear and loneliness.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chernobyl-5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-308233\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chernobyl-5-640x430.png\" alt=\"Chernobyl 5\" width=\"640\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Old broken, rusty bumper cars, abandoned among the vegetation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chernobyl-6.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-308235\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chernobyl-6-640x398.png\" alt=\"Chernobyl 6\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The view from the top of a 16-storey apartment block in Pripyat, where nature has reclaimed the town.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_308237\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chernobyl-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-308237\" class=\"wp-image-308237 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Chernobyl-7-640x428.png\" alt=\"Chernobyl 7\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-308237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit: Shutterstock<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>School gym in an abandoned military town called Chernobyl-2 in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/now.dstv.com\/catchup\/program\/1050113\">Chernobyl<\/a><\/strong><strong>,<\/strong> the human story of the 1986 nuclear accident is brought to life by brilliant performances from Stellan Skarsg\u00e5rd (The Avengers), Emily Watson (Kingsman: The Golden Circle) and Jared Harris (The Crown) in a gripping series that follows the responders who made incredible sacrifices to contain the nuclear fallout.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But what actually happened on that devastating day in 1986 and in the aftermath?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dstv.co.za\/\">Stream the latest episodes of Chernobyl on DStv Now \u00bb<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watch the Trailer - Chernobyl Season 1| M-Net\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M63y-H3X5Fs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Chernobyl went up in flames, people in the surrounding areas left in a hurry, leaving a creepy time capsule. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":320531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[13417,26],"class_list":["post-320529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-dstv-now","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320573,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320529\/revisions\/320573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}