See Photos Taken on Illegal Visits to Chernobyl's Dead Zone

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See Photos Taken on Illegal Visits to Chernobyl's Dead Zone
 
By Gulnaz Khan
Photographs by Pierpaolo Mittica, Parallelozero

An estimated 200 tons of radioactive material festers beneath a steel containment structure inside Chernobyl, the site of the worst nuclear catastrophe in history. Weightless, odorless, and invisible to the human eye, it has leached into the ground and swept across the anguished landscape.

Today, the 30-kilometer radius around the most contaminated area—the exclusion zone—is a mausoleum of man’s technological folly. Its ruination has become a symbol of the failed utopian ideals of the Soviet Union, a warning of humanity’s capacity to wreak ecological havoc, and a reminder of both our fragility and resilience.

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Knyazev (nicknamed JimmSide), rests in an abandoned pig shed on the journey to Pripyat. "I'm attracted by the freedom of the zone," he says. "It's a huge area of ​​2,500 square kilometers and virtually free of people. You can go into any house, any apartment, live there, feel history."

Can you also feel the cancer coursing through your veins?

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Crazed lunatics. They pride themselves on not knowing about the radiation.