A fairground wheel in the abandoned town of Prypiat. On the 26 April 1986 there was a catastrophic nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant. in Ukraine. Prypiat was founded in 1970 to house workers for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was officially proclaimed a city in 1979 but was abandoned in 1986. The city was home to 50,000 people who where all evacuated in 2 days following the disaster. In 1986 the city of Slavutich was constructed to replace Prypiat.
Many of the building interiors in Prypiat have been vandalised and ransacked over the years. Because the buildings have not been maintained since 1986, the roofs leak, and in the springtime the rooms are flooded with water. Trees can be seen growing on roofs and even inside the buildings. All this adds to the deterioration process; a four-story school collapsed in July 2005.
There are concerns about visiting Prypiat and the surrounding areas and you can now find companies to give you a guided tour, extreme tourism. The radiation levels have since dropped and in certain areas the radiation levels are very low. The city and surrounding zone are boarded with guards and police but it is apparently relatively easy to get the documentation to visit the site. 
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