Sad for the Ukrainians having to deal with such a aftermath. Japan has already dealt with some similar issues due to their involvement as an axis power in World War 2. Now they many suffer a similar fate again due to the recent earthquakes effects on their reactors.

Fantastic work - makes you wonder if Japan will have any of these terriable things. Those poor innocents

This is tragic yet beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

Your pictures and commentary are unbelievable. Such sadness. Thank for allowing me to experience this.

The more I watch, the more sadness fills me, tears to my eyes. I think to myself "How many people are unaware?" The world forgets. This should be mandatory viewing.

Une honte pour l'humanité entière des millions de vies détruite à tout jamais. J'espère sérieusement que cette catastrophe restera graver dans les mémoires

I tried to post on this tragedy, but the spam filter is blocking it.

wow nice share for Chernobyl, btw i usually read your blog using my blackberry email account.

perfect picture, real affection between mother and baby.

I think this is a very horrible tragedy. This should be a big history

People here are so uninformed, that the name Chernobyl to them is unknown, People, they think this event was so long ago, it was not.

I was feeling sorry for myself today. I am not anymore. Instead, today I will do something to help these children. Somehow.

Hello I am a veteran of the French nuclear tests, I underwent surgery for cancer in November 2003. I'm horrified by these photographs. These children are scarred in their chairs. How again praising the civil and military nuclear. May the force be with them! Patrick BARRIER What courage Mr. Fusco

That’s a really interesting post, I know in the UK that employers are searching Facebook and MySpace when they get CVs in

I can but weep.

that is rlly scary

this is a major disaster that must never be forgotten. Didn't realize until I found this post just how bad it really was.

Thank you, this was very informative. We do not learn about these things in the United States school system.

I was just a kid when it happend but years later after i read about and seen pics of the disaster it must of been horrible

i thought it ment black grass or stalks?

I thought that everybody might like to know that "Chernobyl" is Russian for "We goofed big time".

Looking at this it reallly makes it easier for a person to ask is Nuclear devlopment and messing with radiation is more important then the lives of human beings. I really want to work once I'm a bit older to shut down Nuclear plants around the world that can harm humans. It is not acceptable for this!

This moved me. I had to stop and just watch. That feeling inside, fixed to what your looking at, uncomfortable, compelled, silenced. I knew about Chernoybl form a young age. Whislt still at school, my family would take in a child the same age as me from Belarus. They lived with us for 6 weeks each year, like a new brother we would do everything together, school, play, meals, trips out.... I knew about Chernoybl, about the accident, about the tradedy, about the pain and suffering. I knew about Chernoybl, but I realise I never really understood it. The real pain and suffering it generates. Your right Paul, it is a war. Maybe someone did pull on God's beard, and now he is laughing! Ive seen allot of chernoybl related images over the years, but never have I felt so moved and silenced as watching your essay. Thank you for sharing....

Very informative essay on the lasting effects of this careless disaster. The photographs are chilling and sad............very sad.

Very Interesting...