Into the Exclusion Zone, Chernobyl

Long, remarkable day yesterday. A trip from Kyiv up to the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Chernobyl town, reactor number 4 and Pripyat.

Top: Cash register at Middle School Number 3, Pripyat, with gas masks,

and bottom, a copy of Soviet Patriot newspaper dated April 23, 1986. The

accident occured just after midnight on the morning of April 26.

More to come.