Today marks the 38th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster. I took an infrared camera into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in the Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, a few weeks before COVID shut down worldwide travel. A few of my photos are below. Here’s a link to a story about Ukraine and its reliance on nuclear power today.
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