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IJE Advance Access originally published online on July 19, 2006
International Journal of Epidemiology 2006 35(4):827-831; doi:10.1093/ije/dyl123
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2006; all rights reserved.

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Legacy: inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone

John Darwell

Email: john{at}johndarwell.com

The images shown here1 explore inside the 30 km exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl Power Plant. Evacuated with 24 hours notice after the 1986 melt down of one of its three nuclear reactors, the zone now stands as a symbol of the dangers inherent within the nuclear process. Empty villages strewn with the reminders of their former populations are scattered throughout the zone and at its centre is the city of Pripyat, formerly a symbol of the Ukraine's bright new future and now too radioactive to even demolish, its buildings crumbling and littered with the detritus of a fleeing population.

Yet amongst this devastation a few, mostly old, people have returned to their homes in the zone (they were initially removed to the outskirts of Kiev). Without any other, or safer, place to go, they make a living from this radioactive and most notorious of locations.

A report by Greenpeace (2006) published to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the disaster estimates that the consequences could surpass a quarter of a million cancer cases and 100 000 deaths from cancer.2 This report challenges the UN International Atomic Energy Agency Chernobyl Forum report that predicted only 4000 deaths attributable to the accident.

Ukraine finally shut down the Chernobyl power plant in 2000.

Further examples of Legacy can be seen at www.johndarwell.com > Projects/Images


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  		30 km exclusion zone entry point

 

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  		Buryakovka, landfill site

 

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  		Pripyat, the most radioactive city

 

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  		Pripyat kindergarten

 

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1 Darwell, J. Legacy: Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Stockport: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2001.

2 Greenpeace (2006) The Difficult Truth about the Chernobyl Catastrophe: The Worst Effects are Still to Come. Greenpeace, ISBN 5-94442-013-8.


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