Chernobyl, site of world's worst nuclear disaster, remains haunting place

CHERNOBYL, UKRAINE - MARCH 17: A view of the water-cooling tower of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant as Ukrainian soldiers visit the 30-kilometer exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the town of Pripyat where thousands of people who once worked at the nuclear power plant lived, in Chernobyl, Ukraine on March 17, 2024. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the scene of the world's biggest nuclear disaster, still bear the traces of the explosion 38 years later. Pripyat, which was established in 1970 for Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers and abandoned after the disaster, resembles a ghost town. While the accident that took place on April 26, 1986 at the plant 110 kilometers away from Kyiv, remains in the memories, the consequences of the accident are still being discussed on the international agenda. (Photo by Gian Marco Benedetto/Anadolu via Getty Images)