April 26, 1986, Chernobyl

[MattSh]

Although I live within an easy day trip to Chernobyl, I have yet to visit there myself; sadly, I have yet to even visit the Chernobyl Museum here in Kiev. Both of them are on my photography “To Do” list. No, you can’t just hop in the car and drive to Chernobyl anytime you want. You have sign up and go with a company that is certified to run such trips.

Here’s what I posted about this photo last year…

The date April 26, 1986 may remind some people of a specific event, to others, the date might sound familiar, and to others, this date is meaningless.

April 26, 1986 is the date of the Chernobyl disaster, and this sculpture commemorates this event. This event has more meaning to residents of Chernigov, since it was (and still is) the closest major population center (100,000+ residents) to Chernobyl. Chernigov lies 52 miles or 84 kilometers from Chernobyl.

Kiev, a much larger population center (2 million+) lies only 67 miles or 107 kilometers from Chernobyl.

[Mira]

1. I saw that you posted this, and told myself,

first chance I can i want to thank you!
If ever you find a way to go there I hope you tell about it!

A little while back when the crisis hit in Japan and I was pre-occupied with nuclear disaster I ran across this:

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/plutosrealm.html

If someone goes and pokes about and takes a look that person will know why I have no words.

[Celebration]

2. this commemerates

how much we have yet to learn.

Thank you for posting.