Yes, the pictures are moving and the stories are touching. However, your photostory is based on a false premise. Most (if not all) of the children in orphanages and hospitals are not “the Chernobyl Legacy”. Please stop misinforming people. For everyone’s information, I include the following quote from Wikipedia about the Chernobyl Disaster: The 2005 report prepared by the Chernobyl Forum, led by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and World Health Organization (WHO), attributed 56 direct deaths (47 accident workers, and nine children with thyroid cancer), and estimated that as many as 9000 people among the approximately 6.6 million most highly exposed, may die from some form of cancer (one of the induced diseases). Nearly 20 years after the disaster, according to the Chernobyl Forum, none of the expected increases in leukemia have been found in the population, nor in the solid cancers.

i just thought this was amazing but there was one thing that got me.... inmates? thats kind of harsh to say about these poor children. they are not inmates by choice they are in a hospital/orphanage because of the way they were born. How about the orphans? or being sweet enough to call them what they are children. not inmates and even worse not a monster

Thank you for showing us just how bad this was and is. Living here on the other side of the globe you never think about these things. I've heard of Chernobyl and knew what it was, but never knew any of this. About the hardships people are still facing, and how bad it was for the ones no longer here. I hope people look at this and realize how the world would end up if ever went to Nucular war. Radiation is one of the worst ways to die that I can think of. Thank you again, Dennis

dear Sir not often am i so touched by pictures, your pictures and story made me, a 44year old guy, cry like an infant

And I think that I have problems.

your images are incredible, first of all for the fact that you had the strength to stay there for 2 months and document this. it is compelling for all living persons to see these images and to understand the grotesque and ireverssable ways in which we are affecting ourselves and the world we live in. if we don't somehow "clean up our act" as soon as possible, we are all going to die, probably a lot sooner that we would expect. this should be everyone's goal, everything else is simply in vain. thank you again paul for waking me up and reminding me that.

This is so touching and terrible. You did a spectacular job with the photography in producing photographs which really take the viewer by the heart and makes them realize how damn foolish we are for worrying over stupid little things when there are people in the world who are utterly helpless as you've managed to reveal. Amazing work. Wonderfully provoking in every sense.

The people helping the orphans are people who were truely sent by God. I am an American citizen, and a former soldier. I expected to see the horrors of this disaster, but I never thought that the mutations that were present in the children were possible. I wish I could do something for them. I wish I could be their hero, their beacon of hope in the dark. I really hate to see children suffering. That's why I joined the Army in the first place. To help end suffering.

I want to get a fund raiser off the ground for those children. I want to get money together for advanced research for cures. I need ideas, any ideas would be good. I have the support of a couple local businesses, but that alone isn't enough. Can anyone help?

Wir haben den "GEIST" aus der Flasche gelassen obwohl wir wußten wie wenig wir über ihn wissen ! "Die Geister die ich rief werd´ich nun nicht los!" We let the "GIN" came out of his bottle, although we knew that we know nothing about him.

Regardless of the people claiming the photos and information given here is inaccurate, the story is moving and motivating. The Chernobyl incident still after so long shows that humans are not ready to play with the devices we've created. No matter how distorted the site may portray it as (though I do not say it is) it still bloody well happened and it was and is horrible. We brought it on ourselves, and the world suffers because of the misjudgements of a few. If more people were aware of the incident, maybe we'd think a little more about our methods of convenience.

Mr. Fusco! You have did a amazing job whit this information for the victims of this disaster special the children. Nobody can leave this site unmoved.

Нда, трагедия на 4 блоке это пиздец ! прошу прощения, но тругих слов нет, все из за нашего правительства, которое до последнего не могла донести до людей то, что реактор взорвался, после взрыва, жизнь в Припяти еще шла 24 часа, потом взрыва бы не было, есл бы проверка каторая была за год до катастрофы выявила не поладки, и еслиб ученые не стали рисковать и в 86 не делать проверку, пока реактор был включен. The tragedy on the 4th energy block of Chernobyl is terrible!!!!! Our (i am russian) goverment is SUXXXX in 1986, all people and workers in Chernobyl were afraid of them. Nobody can tell our goverment that testing on 4th energy block were failed. And when it hapend our goverment don't tell it to people for 24 hours !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and firemans think that there was a fire as usual. many of them was died. Rest in peace for them, we remember you ! P.S: Sory for my English. i am just a student of college

You've done an amazing job by showing this to us. Thank you very much for caring for these people and for letting us know their condition. I was stunned with those pictures, it's incredible what radiation can do. After 20 years, I still can't believe no one is doing anything to try and clean that place up, remove the junk and send some help for the population of Chernobyl. Thanks again, wish there'd be more people like you in the world.

Thank you. It's a catastrophie. I's awful. It's our pain, fault, crime... Te material i saw - left me severely frustrated...I feel pain of those, whose pictures you made...When i think of the remaining - i feel horror... All this tragedy - is the payment. I do not know for what...But i feel it... But, is there anything be done about it?

...for enlightening me. I was only 9 when Chernobyl changed the world and it never sunk in how terrible it was, until now. Thank you

Thank you for talking about it and exposing this horrific tragedy to more peaple. I was in Kiev when this happened. My parents were lucky to be warned by a friend on the day of the excident -- we left to moskow the next day. I live in chicago now and will always remember how lucky I have been .

Thank you Paul for this magnificent and touching documentary.It is so important for the whole world to remember--I will always pray for the lives lost and for all affected by this unimaginable tragedy.

Es un muy buen sitio que me dio a conocer algo que nunca habia pasado por mi mente, excelente.

En la actualidad este tipo de cosas las desconocemos por que no estamos en el lugar de la tragedia, si estuviesemos en esas circunstancias yo no me quedaria callado, haria algo por mi gente y sobre todo por mi, digo tanto sufrimiento enfocado solo en los niños que culpa tienen ellos, y como diria Zapata que chingaderas son estas que hemos hecho, pero esas son causas que el mismo hombre ocasiona por sus mismo actos el cual no mide bien lo que hace apesar de que somos HOMOSAPIENS que quiere decir hombre que piensa lo cual dice que es un hombre que consientisa sus actos, yo no lo creo que seamos asi, simplemente actuamos a lo pendejo y eso nos repercute a todos sin distinción de clases sociales y sin , si el hubiera existe esto no estuviese pasando desgraciadamente ya esta hecho. Aun Sueño ver un mundo sin guerray sin autodestruccion de el ecosistema en que vivimos, desgraciadamente toda la gente ya vemos normal ese tipo de situaciones y se nos hace normal en el ambito diario, hasta que se hace parte de nuestras costumbres y ambitos. No permitamos nuestra autodestrución nosotros mismo, que la naturaleza nos va dejar una lección que jamas olvidaremos, ya lo hemos visto como lo han sido la contaminación ambiental que provoco lo de la Planta de Chernobyl que ha dejado marcado a 7 millones de gentes y esta afectando a los que van naciendo y no simplemente en Chernobyl si no en todo el mundo, como ignorantes que somos las particulas de este tipo de estragos llegan a cualquier rincon de este planeta, como por ejemplo: Mi compañero Ramón del Toro se quemo un pedo y yo lo alcance a oler y eso que no estaba cerca de el si no hasta el otro extremo eso fue un gasesillo de aproximadamente .000000000003 gr y apesto todo el salon imaginate lo que haria una bomba nuclear ahora el caso Chernobyl que no haria con el resto de lo que hay en el globo terraqueo aunque no lo crean es cierto, y no soy un cientifico ni nada por el estilo, soló soy un espectador mas de esta vida. Atte: Francisco Javier Alcaraz Talamantes de Colima Mexico.

Muchos reaccionan como es previsible, se alteran, dan consejos, amonestan, en fin. Pero como dicen en el libro, Chernobyl es un asunto del que no se habla mucho porque es el espejo de algo que no queremos aceptar. Porque es algo que nos derroto a todos como especie humana. Y, lo que es peor, esa derrota la propiciamos nosotros mismos. No tiene sentido ponerse a jugar al sabio, en estos casos bien vale la pena andar con cuidado en un mundo que siempre terminamos por estropear. Somos una especie patetica.

I knew Armand Hammer when this disaster took place. I know he died for the work he did here. This has been one of the most shamefully negleted set of victims of disaster in the history of mankind. It makes me humble to see this amount of suffering. How could this happen? My heart is torn out. Poet

it is horrable what happened and i hope othing like this never happens again, and again I am so sorry

I Just Graduated a History Major from a prominent Christian University and I Never Knew Chernobyl. I don't Think I could know it but I know about It, now. I understand the power of knowing, it slowly cracks at our selfish wills. If Only I knew the worlds pain, would i accept it and let it go on, or give my life for it. Neither, but I know something must be done. How can I help? and How can I Help?

i knew this story was terrifying but when i saw this site and results after this evil... I was shocked!!! I hope this will never happen again...