1. Chernobyl – it is not about the Cooling Tower

2. Chernobyl – it is about the Nuclear Reactor

3. Nuclear Reactors #5 and #6 – untouched for 20 years

4. The Square Building on the horizon is still today a secret defense system (like “SDI”), located outside Chernobyl behind Reactor #4

5. Entering CAES – “Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station” Radiation Level 0.158mR/hour

6. Entering the town of “Pripyat” Radiation Level 1.049mR/hour “Pripyat”

7. Everything looks green …

8. Nothing unusual here

9. This is Pripyat from 1986: a nice Soviet town of 50,000 people

10. This is Pripyat today – completely deserted, frozen in a time when the Soviet Union still existed Note the Hammer & Sickle on the deserted building

11. Everything is overgrown

12. This is the Hotel “Polissya” in 1986

13. This is the same Hotel “Polissya” today, completely abandoned

14. The back side of the Palace of Culture and the hotel today

15. Schoolkids parading in front of the local sports complex before 1986

16. Today these trees are growing on that street and the glass is gone from the same sports complex

17. Here is the inside of the same building, where the pool was

18. This used to be the gymnasium

19. This was the brand new amusement park that was supposed to be opened for May Day 1986. It was never used.

20. Pripyat was evacuated 36 hours after the accident and everything was abandoned

21. This used to be the jail

22. This used to be a kindergarten

23. This used to be the hospital

24. This used to be the main town square

25. Here is where it happened Reactor #4, now covered with steel panels

26. Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor #4

27. Reactor #4 – model to scale

28. Inside the reactor

29. The building structure collapsed

30. The core blew up, caught fire, spilling nuclear fuel everywhere

31. Pripyat was located 5 km (3 miles) from the accident. Everything was abandoned.

32. The town of Chernobyl is 15 km away. People work here today.

33. But check for radiation!

34. Lunch in Chernobyl

35. Mystery Meat in Chernobyl is quite a delicacy

36. Radioactive Armored Personnel Carrier In Chernobyl

37. Chernobyl still has a radioactive statue of Lenin

38. Leaving Chernobyl

39. Leaving Chernobyl: one more radiation check