When photographer David McMillan first visited the city of Pripyat in 1994, he expected his movements to be restricted. Just eight years prior, a reactor at the nearby Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant had exploded, forcing a region-wide evacuation and sending radioactive fallout billowing across Europe.
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CNN: Photographs capture world inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
The new confinement arch built over the infamous Reactor 4 of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine. The reactor exploded on April 26, 1986, hastening the collapse of the Soviet Union more than five years later.
