Minneapolis St. Paul, more than "Twin Cities"

The central part of the north of United States (between the east and the west coast) is one of the most beautiful  places in the US. Theres no so much big cities, but the ones that are there are great!

In Minnesota, called the 10000 lakes, exist good places to know, like Rochester, Duluth, Apple Valley, St. Cloud, Plymouth, but there's a city, that in one word can be called marvellous.

Minneapolis and the "twin" city, Saint Paul, are for sure cities were you can find everything you want. All kinds of sports, malls, Universities and high Schools, big avenues and a good downtown were is located the "Metrodome" home of the Minnesota Vikings and the Target field, home of the Minnesota Twins.

Minneapolis is a city that for sure its awake 24 hours, 7 days a week. The good system of transportation "MetroTransit" that has buses, rail way and the "Northstar" is complete to go across the whole Twin cities.

In Minneapolis-St. Paul its located on of the biggest malls in US and in the whole America. Its called "Mall of America. There you can find lot of stores. For sure you can find what youre looking for. Also theres a Nickelodion amusement park and a Lego "world". Forsure Mall of America its with all the things a good mall should have.

25th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster

25 years ago in Ukraine (USSR) ocurred the worst nuclear accident in the whole history of Humanity (taking into account Fukushima Daiichi)

On that year (1986) one reactor of Chernobyl nuclear central exploded in the morning.

All the ingeneers in the plant didnt know what to do when the emergency started after an experiment that required to turn off al the caution systems.

The big explosion (bigger than the nuclear bombs of Hiroshima or Nagasaki) left a high level of radiation.

The closest city (Pripyat) received all the radiation and the consequences can be seen nowdays.

Pictures: BBC

Pripyat and Chernobyl, 25 years later

April 26th 1986, day of the biggest atomic disaster in the whole history of the humanity. (until today the most serious, more than Fukushima Daiichi).

That day, one of the four reactors in the nuclear central of Chernobyl, in Ukraine (on that time USSR) explode, early in the morning. (the explosion was caused by an experiment and the emergency mechanisms were off). 

The closest city (Pripyat) with a population of 49400 people before the explosion (according to ukrainian government Web) turned 4 days later into 0. 

Many people left their city forever, unknowningly.

The radiation index wasb really high, but in the first moment the people who lived in Pripyat didnt know anything. With the pass of the years they began to see some illness caused by the radiation.

Picture: Flickr.com

A big sarcophagus was builded on the Power Plant on Chernobyl. But the truth is that the sarcophagus is beginning to yield because heat radiating from the nuclear reactor is very high.

Nowdays that zone of Ukraine is uninhabitable, maybe for more decades.