Over the past eight months, Getty Images has sent its Berlin-based photographer, Sean Gallup, to Chernobyl and the surrounding villages to document what life is like there 30 years after the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident. Long-term effects continue to this day, as Gallup’s photographs show.
A sign warns of radiation near the village of Kopachi inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Kopachi had a population of 1,114 before the accident. Radiation fallout was so high that authorities bulldozed and buried all of the structures except for the kindergarten. Today, the site is still contaminated with plutonium, cesium-137 and strontium-90.
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Source: POLITICO – Europe Edition
