The New Safe Confinement sarcophagus, a colossal structure costing 2.2 billion EUR and weighing 36,000 tons, stands as the world's largest man-made object to move on land protecting the world from the nuclear reactor that exploded in 1986.
Ivan Ivanovich, among a couple of hundred residents permanently living in the inner Exclusion Zone, returned to his home village in 1990, citing a lack of alternatives. Despite the Chernobyl disaster, radiation levels in his backyard remain normal, allowing for the cultivation of food and the use of groundwater.
The Duga radar, an over-the-horizon Soviet radar, used to operate uniquely by utilizing the ionosphere for signal reflection. This massive structure, weighing 17,000 tons and measuring 150 m in height and 500 m in length, remains a testament to the complex history of the Chernobyl site.
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine, 2016