Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Return to the Dead Zone: Land of the Wolves
This time she documents some of the more remote areas of the highly radioactive areas, what she calls, the Land of the Wolves.
Check out the videos, which show some of the cleanup process of the reactor and sarcophagus after the meltdown. I found the footage taken by an unmanned camera of the 2 metre mass in the heart of the reactor to be quite interesting. Nicknamed the Elephant's foot, it contains enough radiation to kill a person instantly.Expect to be hearing a lot about Chernobyl in the coming months. Twenty years after the fact, radiation levels are still too high to safely remain in the area for very long or to leave the road. Radioactivity in the plants and grass are much higher than levels on the highway.
posted by Jeff Milner at 12/20/2005 07:40:00 AM
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