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Photos: Ukraine
Sprawling over the valley floor, filling it from the river villages to the foot of the bordering slopes, was an immense sea of bright, blossomed sunflowers. The valley walls cupped the gold like hands cradling a gigantic, shining medallion. Luis gazed in wonder at the vast field of yellow. He did not forget this would be a battleground. But the omen was clear to him, the metaphor of the golden badge too plain to be ignored. —Last Citadel
With reactor #4 in the background, in Ukraine researching the Chernobyl nuclear fire for my upcoming novel, Reaction.
At the Chernobyl Museum in Kiev.
The Sarcophagus was built to contain the radioactivity of reactor #4; it's falling in and needs replacement, because the radioactive materials inside will last 2,500 years.
The abandoned control room of reactor #4.
The nuclear reactor three miles in the distance, as seen from the roof of the Pripyat Hotel in the uninhabitable Exclusion Zone.
At an abandoned park in Pripyat, inside the Exclusion Zone. Readings on the docimeter in my hand reached 1.6 millicuries inside the park, or 100 times normal background radiation. |
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