25 years after the Chernobyl disaster
On 26 April 1986, exactly twenty-five years ago today, reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power facility in what is now Ukraine exploded. It was – and remains – the largest civil nuclear disaster in history.
I once met a trade union official who went to Chernobyl shortly after the disaster to check on the conditions of his members working there on the containment and clean up. He showed me the identity card which recorded his exposure to radiation. He’s dead now.
A set of amazing photographs of the site and local area can be viewed here.