One of my favorite FPS video games in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. Pripyat and Chernobyl are radiants in the game. The graphics portray the town and reactor very accurately, judging from actual photos I have seen.
What they don’t mention in the article is the Red Forest, four square miles around Chernobyl where radiation turned the pine trees red. Eventually, the area was bulldozed and surface soil hauled away. It is still one of the most contaminated sites in the world.
The worst cases of radiation poisoning occurred in Belarus, hundreds of miles from Chernobyl.