Thirty years after its fourth reactor exploded on 26 April 1986, an exclusion zone is still in place around the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine. Photographer Jerzy Wierzbicki visited the zone, accompanied by two guides – former employees of the nuclear plant.
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Timeline.
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Meet the liquidators.
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Surviving the fallout for 30 years.
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Biologist Rob Nelson and anthropologist Mary-Ann Ochota are the first scientists to be permitted unlimited access to the Chernobyl danger zone, and a TV series about their experience is being shown on British TV this week. The fearless duo wanted to explore what became of the environment and the wildlife, and to see if the myths about Chernobyl are true or false.
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Nuclear Ghost Town.
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Thirty years on from the worst nuclear disaster in history journalist Eifion Glyn has returned to Chernobyl to look at how the explosion affected communities and its people. In the S4C programme Y Byd ar Bedwar : Cysgod Chernobyl, on Sunday, April 24 at 8pm, Eifion explores the abandoned villages in the exclusion zone surrounding the reactor. He meets up with some of the people he interviewed in the wake of the catastrophe and tries to find out how many people died as a result.
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