Someone Flew a Drone Through Chernobyl and the Result Is Haunting Matt Connolly - World.Mic
go to original December 6, 2014

Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl (Danny Cooke)

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant melted down in 1986, creating a 1,000-square-mile exclusion zone that has been almost completely devoid of human interference for decades. Now you can take a tour, courtesy of a camera-carrying drone.

Come for the abandoned ferris wheel, stay for the eerily peaceful city being overtaken by nature. It's enough to make you want to take a trip and hang out there. Almost.

The video is the work of British filmmaker Danny Cooke, who visited Chernobyl this year while working for 60 Minutes. In the video's description, Cooke explained the personal connection he has to the subject matter:

Chernobyl is one of the most interesting and dangerous places I've been. The nuclear disaster, which happened in 1986 (the year after I was born), had an effect on so many people, including my family when we lived in Italy. The nuclear dust clouds swept westward towards us. The Italian police went round and threw away all the local produce and my mother rushed out to purchase as much tinned milk as possible to feed me, her infant son.

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