After Fukushima, balancing the risk of another disaster against the rising danger of climate change.

The families who are choosing to live in the exclusion zone’s ghost villages and nearby.

An oral history of the disaster:

Someone said to me, or maybe I read it, that the problem of Chernobyl presents itself first of all as a problem of self understanding. That seemed right. I keep waiting for someone intelligent to explain it to me.

“'You have to understand: This is not your husband anymore, not a beloved person, but a radioactive object with a strong density of poisoning. You’re not suicidal. Get a hold of yourself.' And I was like someone who’d lost her mind: 'But I love him! I love him!' He’s sleeping, and I’m whispering: 'I love you!' Walking in the hospital courtyard, 'I love you.' Carrying his sanitary tray, 'I love you.'”

Visiting the site of the Chernobyl meltdown.

Tourism at the site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.

Scientists quarrel about the fate of animals living in the 1,600 square mile exclusion zone.

Twenty-five years later, inside the Exclusion Zone.