Thirty-six years after the nuclear disaster at the Chornobyl nuclear power plant, the people of Ukraine are suffering the even greater catastrophe of an illegal war waged by the Russian government. Amidst the calamity of the current war, there is another anniversary – the 26 April 1986 nuclear disaster at reactor unit 4 at Chornobyl.
This short document presents some of the images of the legacy of a disaster that persists today and which due to the hazards of radioactivity will stretch long into the future.