Chernobyl eyewitness

A Soviet reporter and three photographers present a visual survey of Chernobyl less than twenty-four hours after the nuclear disaster and interviews with survivors and rescue workers, many of whom are now dying. Photographs and text document the shutdown of nuclear reactors, the efforts of volunteers to drop sand on the reactor, the entombment of the leaking reactor in concrete, the evacuation of citizens from the region, and the crash efforts to construct emergency housing