On the night of April 26th, 1986, as the fourth reactor building at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant burned, a plume of radioactive material ejected from the core of the reactor was carried west by the wind. Two people became immediate casualties of this plume: Katerina Ivanenko and Ivan Orlov. But the plume did not only cause immediate human damage; it left a wound on the face of the Earth, commonly referred to as The Red Forest. Thirty years later, the site of The Red Forest turned red again. This is that story, from beginning to end.
