Chernobyl failure casts 25-year shadow
Buildings, windows smashed, stall like monolithic giants peering down. On solitary, an unlit neon sign aphorism restaurant clings against a rooftop. From an added, a hammer and sickle looms on top of the panorama less.I cant think of a single place Ive visited with the purpose of feels so utterly abandoned and lost.The order to evacuate Pripyat came too after everything else. It had been 36 hours since an explosion into Reactor 4 next to Chernobyl, on April 26, 1986, had spewed its radioactive flotsam and jetsam completed the town.