

Chernobyl / Chornobyl is a city in Uni Sovyet at the wost nuclear incident, but after the collapse of uni sovyet, this country into Ukraina teritory. Now Chernobyl city in northern Ukraine, in Kiev Oblast (Province), near the border with Belarus.
The city was evacuated in 1986 due to the Chernobyl disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located 14.5 kilometers (9 miles) north-northwest. The power plant is within Chernobyl Raion (District), but the city was not the residence of the power-plant workers. When the power plant was under construction, Pripyat, a city larger and closer to the power plant, had been built as home for the power-plant workers.
Though the city today is mostly uninhabited, a small number of inhabitants reside in houses marked with signs stating that the "Owner of this house lives here". Workers on watch and administrative personnel of the Zone of Alienation are stationed in the city on a long term basis. Prior to its evacuation, the city was inhabited by about 14,000 residents.
The world called Chernobyl city is The Wost Nuclear Incident in History.




Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Chernobyl / Chornobyl City The Wost Nuclear Incident
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7 Big Holes In The World
1. Big hole kimberley Mine - South Africa

The underground Kimberley Mine (located at 28°44′18.86″N 24°45′30.95″W) was mined to a depth of 1097 metres and estimates total have been taken in the mine is 22 millions tons. But the Kimberley mine has been closed since 1914.
2. Bingham canyon mine, SLC, Utah USA

The Bingham Canyon Mine (located at 40°31′13.54″N 112°08′58.09″W) is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, in the Oquirrh Mountains. The mine excavation began in 1863 until now. This Hole has a size : 3/4 mile deep and 2,5 mile across.
3. Great Blue Hole, Belize

The Great Blue Hole is a large underwater sinkhole off the coast of Belize (located at 17°18′56.02″N 87°32′04.20″W). The hole is circular in shape, over 300 metres (984 ft) across and 125 metres (410 ft) deep. A blue hole is a submarine cave or sinkhole. They are also called vertical caves. If you want to diving, you can try The Great Blue Hole.
4. Hole(Spillway) in Monticello dam in california

Hole (Spillway) Monticello Dam is a dam in Napa County, California, United States (located at 38°30′44.15″N 122°06′17.60″W)
5. The Diavik diamond mine, Canada

The Diavik Diamond Mine (located at 64°29′40.88″N 110°16′16.35″W) is a diamond mine in the North Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, Canada, about 300 kilometres (186 miles) north of Yellowknife. It's connected by an ice road and Diavik Airport with a 5,235-foot (1,596 m) gravel runway regularly accommodating Boeing 737 jet aircraft.
6. Mirny diamond mine,Siberia RUSIA

The Mirny Diamond Mine (located at 62°52′94.23″N 133°99′35.38″W) is 525m deep and has a diameter of 1200m. It was the first, and one of the largest, diamond Pipes in the USSR. It's now abandoned. While it was still operational, it would take two hours for trucks to drive from the top to the bottom of the mine.
7. Chuquicamata copper mine - Chile
Chuquicamata or "Chuqui" (located at 22°16′42.38″N 68°54′13.55″W) is an open pit copper mine in Chile. It is the mine with the largest total production of copper in the world - though it is not the largest copper mine. The mine is over 850 meters deep.
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