Stalking Chernobyl's Radioactive Ruins in Ukraine - George Johnson

Ukraine isn't likely on most vacationers' short lists these days considering the geopolitical temperature of Eastern Europe. But George Johnson says, politics aside, a worthwhile, if somber, trip is to visit the abandoned Ukranian city of Pripyat, better known as the home to those who worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Johnson says that the city is frozen in time, left in the same condition that it was abandoned in 1986 when the power plant exploded, spewing radioactive particles across the region. The Soviet Union evacuated all people, creating a ghost town only visited by people fascinated with these types of ruins. Johnson's article about his visit to Pripyat and Chernobyl is found in the October 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine.