in the brutal current of time, i'll sometimes come up to share.
Chernobyl’s Half Lives
Radiation checkpoints. Contaminated mushrooms. A quarter-century after the meltdown, meet the families who chose to stay. A MoJo photoessay by Michael Forster Rothbart.“When I was sick with cancer, we sold our car to pay for the surgery. We sold our TV, we sold our refrigerator, jewelry, everything we could. Now my wife Lydia has cancer and there’s nothing left to sell.” —Viktor Gaidak, Chernobyl engineer, above.