Three Men and a Sarcophagus

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Okay, so here's what caused all the trouble - Reactor 4 at Chernobyl nuclear plant. This is a worrying place - the concrete sarcophagus was built extremely hastily after the accident and has been slowly crumbling ever since. Collapse is probably inevitable at some point, and the construction of the huge new enclosure (starting with that gantry you can see at the front) is years behind schedule and constantly running out of funding... After this we drove out of Chernobyl through the Red Forest, with radiation dosimeters going cuckoo. Fun times.



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Overall, I preferred the slightly less petrifying confines of Pripyat - and photographically it's these abstract little bits of business that have most pleased me.

As you can see, I've started putting everything up on the site in The Zone section, there's still a little bit more to come, and there are also a few Kiev pics going up here and there.

Pop picks this week: A very good bootleg of Rachel's live in LA, October 2005. Also, David Lynch's song, Ghost of Love, from the Inland Empire OST.