Gerd Ludwigのインスタグラム(gerdludwig) - 4月4日 22時02分

Maria and her husband had returned home to their village inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone to live out their lives on a contaminated soil instead of dying of a broken heart in an anonymous city suburb.

It’s 40 roughly years ago that the Chernobyl nuclear power plant went first online, but it’s reactor #4 blew up in 1986 after operators botched a safety test. Of all manmade environmental catastrophes in human history, Chernobyl is considered to have caused the most lasting impact. Approximately 350,000 people were forced to evacuate after the explosion. But, disaster be damned, a couple of hundred elderly people have retuned. At first Ukrainian officials discouraged them, but they soon turned a blind eye, allowing them  to stay.  Recently, Ukraine’s minister of ecology announced that his country is talking to a multinational energy company about constructing a giant solar park inside the contaminated Exclusion Zone around the ill-fated reactor. Since my first visit in 1993, I have been documenting the aftermath of accident in dramatic photographs – the failed reactor, the contamination to the land, and the countless victims in the fallout regions, leading to my book and iPad app ‘The Long Shadow of Chernobyl’. @thephotosociety  @natgeocreative @ナショナルジオグラフィック #Chernobyl #Ukraine #returnee #radiation #contamination #disaster #nuclear #Exclusionzone

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