In front of the nuclear power station. It is still covered by the emergency protective shell that was erected in 1986. The construction of the shell exposed many thousands of workers to extremely h (...)

On the roof of a 17 story high block of flats, the higher one goes up the higher the reading of radioactivity. In the background the nuclear power station of Chernobyl. Artwork on the walls made by (...)

Ravaged town close to the nuclear power station of Chernobyl that was evacuated belatedly after the accident. Pripyat, Ukraine. 2008. © Jean Gaumy / Magnum Photos

Sasha Danklin, an 8-year-old boy, with his sister and father, was one of 40 children from the contaminated villages near Chernobyl to come down with thyroid cancer. His thyroid gland was removed, b (...)

Where the children who were the victims of the Soviet Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe live. Cuba received 12,724 people of whom 11,000 were children. Fifteen treatment centers have been established o (...)

Childrens Cancer Hospital. 2000. Tamara Davidovich helps to care for her son, Vova, who lost a leg to cancer. A family member must be with each patient during hospital treatment. They have been in (...)

Abandoned housing that was built to service Chernobyl stations. Because of the dangerous levels of radiation, all 50,000 residents were evacuated from the city the day after the disaster. Prypiat, (...)

Nikolai Yanchen, one of 600,000 liquidators conscripted to fight the fires and clean up the radiation ash and contaminated villages. He lost his right leg to cancer after working as a liquidator fo (...)

Chernobyl, Ukraine. 2022. © Antoine d'Agata / Magnum Photos

One of the few remaining Samosely, residents of the 30-kilometer Chernobyl Exclusion Zone surrounding the most heavily contaminated areas near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Ukraine. 2022. © An (...)