Visions of Gamma Girl Chernobyl 20 Years On: One Woman's Journey Into the Dead Zone

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THOUGH Chernobyl has entered our vocabulary as a byword for scientific hubris and unnatural catastrophe, the place itself has become a mostly forgotten corner of our shrinking planet, visited only by the most ghoulish of tourists.

The looming 20th anniversary of the nuclear meltdown that made it infamous has seen the world's media cautiously revisiting the dead zone, but for the most part, we are happy to stay out of this cursed place. The radiation that saturates the land is invisible, but Chernobyl itself remains shrouded in rumour and hearsay.

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Visions of Gamma Girl Chernobyl 20 Years On: One Woman's Journey Into the Dead Zone

Of all the stories to emerge in the aftermath of the accident be they whispers of government cover-ups or horrific mutants Elena Filatova's has probably travelled both furthest and fastest, which seems appropriate as this self-procla...

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