Life after Chernobyl

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The explosion that struck 25 years ago this month at Chernobyl, the world’s worst nuclear accident, set in motion a major undertaking that today bears on the life of the entire country of Ukraine.

Abandoned buildings in Pripyat, Ukraine. The town, founded in 1970 for workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant but evacuated after the 1986 explosion, has become a tourist destination for the curious. Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post

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