Ghosts

This site is a must-see. It's a Ukrainian woman's photo diary of motorcycling through Chernobyl's "dead zone". Haunting stuff, homes and lives abandoned overnight as people fled from the worst nuclear disaster in history, the reactor explosion which took place on April 26, 1986. In her commentary, Elena (whose English has a very poetic Russian flair) mentions that that it's estimated that between 300,000 and 400,000 people have died from radiation poisoning and that this area will remain unsafe for human habitation for 900 years. A millenium. That's just astounding.