Are they still cleaning up Chernobyl?

Recent images of the ongoing cleanup work and the ghost towns being reclaimed by nature within the 1000-square-mile (2600-square-kilometers) exclusion zone in Ukraine. read more

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is a 2,600-square-kilometer restricted access zone established in the contaminated area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. While workers employed at the Chernobyl site today and a small number of returnees live in the outer zone, no one is allowed to live in the inner zone, where hot spots of radiation make the area uninhabitable for thousands of years to come. read more

More here: Chernobyl’s New Safe Confinement. There’s also the matter of the other three reactors which are being decommissioned and still hold thousands of tons of nuclear fuel in storage in various states of decay. read more

The 'liquidator': He cleaned up after Chernobyl — and is paying the price. Sergey Krasilnikov, 65, was one of about 800,000 Soviet citizens tasked with stemming the tide of the Chernobyl disaster. read more