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John Darwell
Legacy - Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
 
  

The images shown here explore inside the 30-kilometre exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl Power Plant. Evacuated with 24 hours notice after the 1986 melt down of one of its three nuclear reactors, the zone now stands as a symbol of the dangers inherent within the nuclear process. Empty villages strewn with the reminders of the former population are scattered throughout the zone and at its centre is the city of Pripyat, formerly a symbol of the Ukraine‘s bright new future and now too radioactive to even demolish, its buildings crumbling and littered with the detritus of a fleeing population.
 
Yet amongst this devastation a few, usually old, people have returned to their homes in the zone (they were initially removed to the outskirts of Kiev) for want of anywhere else, or safer, to go, and make a living from this radioactive and most notorious of locations.
 
"On the basis of demographic data, during the last 15 years, 60,000 people have died additionally in Russia because of the Chernobyl accident and estimates of the total death toll for Ukraine and Belarus could be another 140,000," (Source : ‘cbsnews.com‘ April 21st 2006 ‘Number of Chernobyl-Related Deaths Debated‘.)
 
Ukraine finally shut down the Chernobyl Power Plant in 2000.
 
Legacy: Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2001)*
 
* Some of the images shown here differ from those in the book.
 
Further examples of Legacy can be seen at www.johndarwell.com 
  

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