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The forgotten of Tchernobyl : 20 years after.

April 26 1986 – April 26 2006. Twenty years after the most terrible nuclear catastrophe ever known, Tchernobyl remains forever a gigantic black cloud  which has radiated the life of million people. Negligence, human error, technical malfunction, all these causes have pulverized the reactor nr. 4 of the nuclear power station of Tchernobyl.  Within a few seconds, 190 tons of enriched uranium are exploding and the thrown out materials are very diverse, the gas are blowing off in the atmosphere up to an altitude of 10.000 meters, and the winds bring them in and out of USSR.  Those gas are incredibly harmful and are provoking innumerable human damages, further to air, ground and entire nature pollution.

Still today, victims are suffering.  Hundreds of children are born atrophied, deformed, other ones are suffering of cancerous tumours, and all are breathing and eating the same radioactivity.  This population, almost forgotten by the governments, forms the red thread of this photographic report, with, in the background, the liquidators.  So essential personages during the catastrophe, those men risked their lives to save other ones, and ignoring it !  They have indeed  been launched within the terribly radioactive area of the reactor, in order to try to hidden, with bare hands and simple shovels, the consequences of the catastrophe.  They succeeded in extinguishing the fire early enough to avoid a second nuclear explosion twenty to fifty times stronger than that one of Hiroshima, making Europe uninhabitable.

Their heroic action will nevertheless stay without any reward….

To give evidence of their suffering, to recall their history and their everyday life, is to show their existence, and their fight to retrieve a lost happiness.