The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded during the nighttime hours of April 26, 1986. It remains the single worst nuclear accident in history.

How much have you thought about Chernobyl, about radioactive accidents/incidents and their effect on life? If you're like most of us, you think very rarely if at all of such things...

I encourage you to visit the following website -- Chernobyl journey

It's a personal website from a young Russian woman whose hobby and life's work seems to be travelling on her motorcycle the roads in and around the Chernobyl "dead zone", chronicling those who still live here and the natural life that's reclaiming the irradiated lands. She writes in broken English, but it's an interested read with eerie descriptions and photos of a place where time really does stand still -- at least, time in the way we humans measure it.

For more learning and thinking, visit: http://www.allplanet.com/russia/picnic.htm
or visit Google's search results for "Chernobyl".