Figure 9.14: The Chernobyl disaster. The most severe radioactive contamination from the Chernobyl catastrophe came from two isotopes, cesium-137 and iodine-131. The map is somewhat speculative because of inadequate data. The future of human habitation in the area most catastrophically affected remains uncertain, but some tracts there have been completely depopulated.
(Source: Adapted from Park, 1989: 66, 74, 79, 92.)