Postcards from Pripyat: Fresh drone footage spotlights the Chernobyl nuclear disaster site
Dec02
Perhaps it’s not the most dangerous place on the planet anymore — sadly, there’s Fukushima Japan, the site of the 2011 nuclear reactor meltdown, as well as numerous political hotspots all over the globe where grave harm can come to anyone in the vicinity. But the disaster at Chernobyl maintains a unique capacity to haunt, as survivors of 26 (the local reference to the nuclear meltdown that took place on April 26, 1986 — something like the universal reference to 911) remember how their lives changed instantly and forever. It happened nearly 30 years ago, but once again, photographers have revisited the Ukraine site and its nearby town Pripyat…
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