Fresh off the Slashdot press, here’s a fascinating interview with one of the few surviving engineers who was working the night of the disaster:
Everything that could be destroyed had been. The entire water coolant system was gone. The right-hand side of the reactor hall had been completely destroyed, and on the left the pipes were just hanging. That was when I realised that Khodemchuk was definitely dead. The place where I was told he’d been standing was in ruins.
He’s spent the rest of his life suffering from the longterm effects of radiation poisoning.
DarrenBarefoot.com 
If this sort of thing interests you, Check out http://xpda.com/junkmail/junk153/chernobyl/page2.html for some really interesting pictures and thoughts about the Chernobyl dead zone. There are a lot of pages… just keep going through. It was amazing.
Indeed, I have seen it. Though, in actuality, it’s kind of a hoax.
This reminds me of my chance meeting with a clean-up crew member on the Exxon Valdez oil spill. She had a lot of medical issues, including cancer. As far as she knows, she’s the only surviving member left of her crew who all died from a variety of illnesses she claims were the result of the clean-up process.
Hi
I’ve just returned from a trip to Ukraine and visited Chernobyl and Prypriat in the exclusion zone (see link for some short videos).
There was a lot of snow, but the trip was very moving and eye opening.
One noteable fact is that the swimming pool pictured on many websites and in my YouTube video was still in use ten years ago.
Darren
Chernobyl is a fallasiey of man not nature there for
a La De Dour is none apicabyl buy law.
Even thow EISA shreaded the books the burn the book on chernobyl. [It’s not a problem].
DO to I used only Independent origeal thinking. I can alwaay’s re-do the hard copy’s..
No: the origeal auther an Inventer that put out cherobyl is still alive. All EISA was doing was violating the US Fedreal Wissel Blower act.
There are sevreal subordent engineer’s left.
The top core gone: the bottem of the core is gone,
98% of the control room gone. Millio renkin’s = !,000,000 then. 15,000 now it’s come dow.
The upper gallery math room gone. Yes I know.
the female scintest is not the only one left.
3″ rebar under the core, core slip’s only 12″inch’s.
Cap over the core wight lead; Doriuem clay it’s a nutron spung: plus a silacon cover [remaltable] time an time agine like valcanic glass.
I know it not her work do to I still alive. what she pulling is called Plagerisem in the west. the united states.