April 26, 1986

^{Chernobyl nowadays. In the foreground Prypiat, the city built especially for the power plant workers, abandoned since late April 1986. In the background, the power plant.}

Impossible to leave this date unmentioned. Mistakes made by the engineers on the night of April 25-26 1986 behaving like amateurs with the reactor #4, triggered a process that will go on for the whole millenium. On location, everything was hastily done – in catastrophic gearshift – at the time and all is to be redone properly, especially the storage of highly radioactive material buried along the river banks. The pictures are overwhelming and new catastrophy are just around the corner. Again.
We cannot send workers over there without them being fully aware that they shorten their lives this way. Yet the work will have to be done to a certain extent. At least to avoid the worse of the worst. I ain't no volunteer. I'd rather go to Afghanistan....

^{Extension of the radiation all over Europe in early May 1986}