Power Plant Сooling Towers
Чернобыльская АЭС градирни

The ‘Power Plant Сooling Towers’ are two unfinished concrete giants close to building site of Reactor 5 and 6 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. At the present time the towers are two industrial ruins.
The towers were built to evaporate the cooling water from the two newly built reactors. The existing reactors of the power plant had no cooling towers because they cooled the condenser with water from the Pripyat river in open-cycle.
In the end the Power Plant Сooling Towers were never completed. The diameter of the almost finished tower is 120 meters, its height is about 150 meters. Eventually the Chernobyl disaster stopped all works around the site in 1986. Years later the government decided to close down all reactors of the Chernobyl Power Plant. Today, the radiation level is still high, almost 10 times more than normal.
A view at the cooling towers from Nagortsy. The unfinished cooling tower. Both towers in one frame. 120 meters wide and its height is about 150 meters. Cooling tower 2 in a desolate field. Looking up in tower 1. The water pipeline was already installed. The towers were never completed. The Chernobyl disaster stopped all works around the site in 1986. The ‘Power Plant Сooling Towers’. Chernobyl cooling tower. Urban exploring Chernobyl and its Industry. Looking up in the cooling tower. The towers were built to evaporate the cooling water from the two newly built reactors. Inside the cooling tower. ‘290’. Rusting fish pens.