Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Visiting Chernobyl, 25 Years Later

Apocalypse Today: 

A May 1986 aerial photo of the damaged reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant
Vladimir Repik / AP
The 18.5-mile (30 km) radius around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is known officially as the "zone of alienation." Abandoned cars, tractors, buildings and homes litter the landscape and are slowly being devoured by trees and shrubs. A classroom bulletin board not far from the central Lenin Street in the town where the plant workers used to live reads, "No return. Farewell, Prypyat, April 28, 1986."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2067562,00.html#ixzz1Kde4Kp00/.../

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