A failed safety test of the Chernobyl reactor number 4 caused the largest nuclear disaster in history. Today the epicentre of this world-changing event is buried under rubble and protected by the New Safe Confinement, a 100-metre tall steel arch designed to last over 100 years, by this time all deadly radioactive material will have been removed. I captured this image between November 2020 and September 2021, when I installed two more cameras pointed at the power plant. Unfortunately, both were destroyed by the Ukrainian military searching for mines and bombs left by the Russian forces withdrawing to Belarus.
Image © Kamil Budzyński 2023