Matthew Schofield, writing for the Miami Herald:

Even 30 years later – 25 years after the country that built it ceased to exist – the full damage of that day is still argued.

Death toll estimates run from hundreds to millions. The area near the reactor is both a teeming wildlife refuge and an irradiated ghost-scape. Much of eastern and central Europe continues to deal with fallout aftermath. The infamous Reactor Number 4 remains a problem that is neither solved nor solvable.

Riveting account of the Chernobyl disaster, with a first person accounting from one of the very few people who was there and lived to tell the tale.