After Chernobyl (40 images)
If you lived near Chernobyl, would you stay?
To the world, Chernobyl seems a place of danger, but for locals, Chernobyl is simply a fact of life.
On April 26, 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant changed history, sending radiation and political shockwaves across Europe. Radioactive fallout contaminated 56,700 square miles of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, a region larger than New York state.
In the popular imagination, the Chernobyl...
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To the world, Chernobyl seems a place of danger, but for locals, Chernobyl is simply a fact of life.
On April 26, 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant changed history, sending radiation and political shockwaves across Europe. Radioactive fallout contaminated 56,700 square miles of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, a region larger than New York state.
In the popular imagination, the Chernobyl...
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On April 26,1986, an explosion at Ukraine's...
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A closed storefront in Kharkiv, Ukraine, is...
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Chernobyl plant worker Sergei Koshelev crosses...
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Andrei Balta throws his fifteen-month-old son...
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Teenage dancers wait backstage for their turn...
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In the pre-dawn fog, commuters wait outside the...
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"I only went back once. I couldn't stop...
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"The time has come to sort out what is...
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Novo Ladizhichi, Ukraine, is a new village,...
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The citizens of Sukachi, Ukraine, celebrate...
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World War II veterans and other Chernobyl plant...
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In the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, abandoned...
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"In Chernobyl, no one knew how serious it was....
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"When I was sick with cancer, we sold our car...
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Nina Dubrovskaya and Lena Priyenko walk home to...
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"After the accident, I was sick, of course,...
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"Mostly, people do not get sick because of...
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The memorial hall in the Slavutych, Ukraine,...
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Sasha and Lyuba Boichuk watch a stand-up comedy...
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In 2007, Olga Feshenko suggested hope for...
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In Sukachi, Ukraine, a small food and liquor...
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Katya Nosova is 16 and wants to be an artist....
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Irina Pochupey (in pink sweater) and other...
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"I was born here and I'll die here. I already...
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Customers fill their gas tanks at the Energiya...
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Chernobyl personnel check their contamination...
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"For me, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is...
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Dials in the Chernobyl First Block control room...
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Sergii Mirnyi puts on protective gear before...
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Cooks in the two large cafeterias at the...
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How do you clean a radioactive building? Tania...
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"Social tension, dissatisfaction with...
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Petro Konovalenko is head of the village...
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Father Momotyuk Nazarii, village priest at the...
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When Valentin Kupny retired as supervisor of...
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Dance and music teacher Lesya Kostenko (left)...
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"For many veterans of Chernobyl, serving as a...
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A memorial in Ivankiv, Ukraine, lists the...
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Items on the bulletin board at the Chernobyl...
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In winter, Chernobyl plant workers walk to the...