Three years ago, I was standing about a hundred yards from Chernobyl nuclear reactor number four.三年前，我站在距离切尔诺贝利第四号核子反应炉大约一百码外。My Geiger counter dosimeter, which measures radiation, was going berserk,我的盖革放射量测定器，用来测量辐射量，指数狂飙，and the closer I got, the more frenetic it became, and frantic. My God.当我越接近，

Health studies from the region are conflicting and fraught.针对那个地区做的健康研究都很矛盾又漏洞百出。The World Health Organization puts the number of Chernobyl-related deaths at 4,000, eventually.世界卫生组织估计与切尔诺贝利事件相关的死亡人数有4,000人。Greenpeace and other organizations put that number in the tens of thousands.绿色和平和其它组织估计有上万人。N

Now around Chernobyl, there are scattered ghost villages,如今切尔诺贝利附近到处是毫无人烟的村庄，eerily silent, strangely charming, bucolic, totally contaminated.静得吓人，诡谲迷人的气息，一片荒芜，完全受到污染。Many were bulldozed under at the time of the accident,在那次的意外中有许多房屋被铲平，but a few are left like this, kind of silent vestiges to the tr