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Filmmaker Danny Cooke filmed city of Pripyat, once home to 50,000 people before nuclear disaster in 1986 Nov 29, 2014
As the Guardian reports on Cooke's project:
The Devon-based film-maker also sent the drone into a crumbling indoor swimming pool and over factories and apartment buildings where the only sign of life is the weeds growing on the roof.
"Chernobyl is one of the most interesting and dangerous places I've been," Cooke said. "There was something serene, yet highly disturbing about this place. Time has stood still and there are memories of past happenings floating around us."
It is not until the drone is sent rising above the treetops that viewers can see the vast dome being built to place over the damaged reactor.
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