Have you been thinking of going on holiday in Chernobyl, but have been put off by all that DNA-altering radioactivity? Good news, because now you can live vicariously through someone who decided to cruise through the badlands of the world's worst manmade disaster.

Interestingly, I read a few weeks back that in the days after Reactor 4 blew, the resulting smoldering pile was burning its way through the ground to the water table. If it reached there, the resulting explosion would have taken out Reactors 1, 2, and 3, and the resulting catastrophe, and I don't use that term lightly, would have rendered all of Russia as well as several surrounding areas uninhabitable for generations.

Another interesting bit of info: if I recall correctly, about 400 Roentgens is a lethal dose of radiation. The people on the scene, both those workers attempting to escape as well as those responders struggling to put out the fires, were being exposed to between 25,000 and 30,000 Roentgens and hour. Some who were there died within a week. Another fellow had his arm in bandages for seven years, a legacy of when the radiation caused his skin to essentially slough off after exposure.