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Emma Thomson | Our starting point is the Chernobyl Museum in Kiev, 75 miles south of the reactor.

Pripjat (Russian: Припять, Ukrainian: Прип’ять; Prypjat) is a ghost town in the Kiev Ukrainian oblast, near the border with Belarus. The city was completely evacuated as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. In the city (before 1986) there were about 55,000 inhabitants, many of whom worked at the nuclear power plant.

Visitors to Google Maps can now roam virtually through the overgrown streets of an abandoned town where time has stood still since a tsunami crippled Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant two years ago.

    By Cordula Meyer in Der Spiegel Thousands of people had to flee their homes after the accident at the Fukushima nuclear plant. Since then, the area around the reactor has become an exclusion zone. Some former residents are now returning to salvage possessions and to say goodbye toRead More