Jupiter (factory)
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The Jupiter Factory is an abandoned factory located on the outskirts of Pripyat, in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in northern Ukraine. Officially a manufacturer of cassette recorders and components for
The factory interior in June 2019
August 2016
Chernobyl disaster
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On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded. With dozens of direct casualties and thousands of health complications stemming from the disa
Jupiter (factory)
…industry. New materials were tested in laboratories and workshops and the robotics department developed various robotic systems. Some time after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 caused the abandonment of Pripyat, some employees returned to Jupiter and the factory became a radiological laboratory for testing of various…
Reactor 4 several months after the disaster. Reactor 3 can be seen behind the ventilation stack, Reactors 1 and 2 in the background.
Firefighter Leonid Telyatnikov being decorated for bravery
Image showing a graphite moderator block ejected from the core
Pripyat with the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the distance