What Chernobyl Looks Like In 2010

An anonymous reader writes "The editor of Phoronix.com has toured Chernobyl's Zone of Alienation (the 30km zone surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant) to see what the area looks like 24 years after the world's largest nuclear disaster. Many photographs from Chernobyl in 2010 have now been published, showing off the power plant and its RBMK reactors, the town of Pripyat, the town of Chernobyl, and the Red Forest. The 24th anniversary of this deadly nuclear disaster will be on April 26."

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Re:Largest Nuclear Disaster?

[PopeRatzo]

Does a disaster have to be an accident to be classed as a disaster?

How do you know it was an accident? Ronald Reagan was president in '86 after all, and if he was willing to trade arms to the Iranians for hostages just to win the election, you think he wouldn't irradiate tens of millions of people to secure his legacy as the swinging dick that ended the Cold War?

I mean, it was just a glorious movie about the End Times for him, and he was the Star.