CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UKRAINE
Wearing plastic suits and respirators for protection, workers drill holes for support rods inside the shaky concrete sarcophagus, the structure hastily built after the explosion to isolate the radioactive rubble of reactor #4. Their job is to keep the deteriorating enclosure standing until the New Safe Confinement is finished. It is hazardous work; radiation inside is so high that workers can risk shifts no longer than 15 minutes per day.
Nearly all of the light in the structure came from the beam of sparks. I used an on-camera strobe with a warming gel to make the workers fully visible and freeze their movement ...
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