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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - This Thursday, April 21, 2011 photo shows a handicapped symbol in a parking lot of the deserted town of Futaba, inside the 20-kilometer (12-mile) evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Chernobyl and Fukushima are some 5,000 miles apart but have much in common. The towns nearest to each of these stricken nuclear power stations, in Ukraine and Japan, whose disasters struck 25 years apart, already reveal eerie similarities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) ONE OF PAIR NO. 8
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - This Thursday, April 21, 2011 photo shows a playground at a kindergarten in the deserted town of Futaba, inside the 20-kilometer (12-mile) evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Chernobyl and Fukushima are some 5,000 miles apart but have much in common. The towns nearest to each of these stricken nuclear power stations, in Ukraine and Japan, whose disasters struck 25 years apart, already reveal eerie similarities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) ONE OF PAIR NO. 4
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - This Thursday, April 21, 2011 picture shows umbrella locks at the local history museum in Futaba, inside the 20-kilometer (12-mile) evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Chernobyl and Fukushima are some 5,000 miles apart but have much in common. The towns nearest to each of these stricken nuclear power stations, in Ukraine and Japan, whose disasters struck 25 years apart, already reveal eerie similarities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) ONE OF PAIR NO. 7
ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, SEPT. 4, 2011 AND THEREAFTER - In this Thursday, April 21, 2011 photo, a dog walks across a street in the deserted town of Futaba, inside the 20-kilometer (12-mile) evacuation zone around the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan. Chernobyl and Fukushima are some 5,000 miles apart but have much in common. The towns nearest to each of these stricken nuclear power stations, in Ukraine and Japan, whose disasters struck 25 years apart, already reveal eerie similarities. (AP Photo/Sergey Ponomarev) ONE OF PAIR NO. 1
FILE - In this March 19, 1996, file photo five-year-old Alec Zhloba, who suffers from leukemia, is held by his doctor in the children's cancer ward of the Gomel Regional Hospital, in Gomel, Belarus. Twenty-five years ago, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in Ukraine, spreading radioactive material across much of the Northern Hemisphere. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
FILE - In this March 19, 1996, file photo, Ivan Kalenda turns away to wipe his tears with his scarf during a visit to his three-year-old grandson Vitya in the children's cancer ward of the Gomel Regional Hospital Gomel Belarus. Twenty-five years ago, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in Ukraine, spreading radioactive material across much of the Northern Hemisphere. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
FILE - In this Nov.10, 2000 file photo radioactive contaminated vehicles lay dormant near the Chernobyl nuclear power plan. Some 1,350 Soviet military helicopters, buses, bulldozers, tankers, transporters, fire engines and ambulances were used while fighting against the April 26, 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl. All were irradiated during the clean-up operation. Twenty-five years ago, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in Ukraine, spreading radioactive material across much of the Northern Hemisphere. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A man holds a Geiger counter to detect ionizing radiation in front of the Sarcophagus covering the destroyed 4th block of Chernobyl's power plant on March 28, 2011. Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where the world's worst nuclear disaster took place in April 1986, and the 30-km zone around it remain unhabited until now. Ukraine and its neighbors mark on April 26 the 25th anniversary of the catastrophe. AFP PHOTO/GENYA SAVILOV
Computer simulation of the distribution of radioactivity in the Northern Hemisphere ten days after the accident at the Chernobyl atomic power station, USSR. The accident occured on 25th April 1986 during an experiment with the No.3 RBMK-type reactor. The fuel pile became unstable and overheated, eventually catching fire and breaching its containment building.
A prop room in the theater in the decaying city of Pripyat. The abandoned city once had a population of approximately 45,000 people, including workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and their families. It is now a city of Soviet ruins overgrown with trees and brush. Pripyat is within the 30 km (approximately 19 miles) exclusion zone that surrounds Chernobyl's reactor #4, which exploded in 1986 and was later enclosed in a sarcophagus. Prypiat, Ukraine, March 17, 2011.
Paint has chipped off from a wall in the decaying city of Pripyat. The abandoned city once had a population of approximately 45,000 people, including workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and their families. It is now a city of Soviet ruins overgrown with trees and brush. Pripyat is within the 30 km (approximately 19 miles) exclusion zone that surrounds Chernobyl's reactor #4, which exploded in 1986 and was later enclosed in a sarcophagus. Prypiat, Ukraine, March 17, 2011.
The abandoned Middle School #3 in the decaying city of Pripyat, which once had a population of approximately 45,000 people, including workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and their families. It is now a city of Soviet ruins overgrown with trees and brush. Pripyat is within the 30 km (approximately 19 miles) exclusion zone that surrounds Chernobyl's reactor #4, which exploded in 1986 and was later enclosed in a sarcophagus. Prypiat, Ukraine, March 17, 2011.
Fot. Laski Diffusion/East News Prypec - miasto wybudowane dla pracownikow elektrowni atomowej w Czarnobylu, miasto-widmo opuszczone przez mieszkancow po katastrofie w elektrowni. Przed awaria mieszkalo tu prawie 50 tys. osob. 29.10.1986 Prypiat - ghost town near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Built for workers of the plant, it was abandoned by all of its 50.000 inhabitants after the nuclear disaster. 29.10.1986
