Figure 7.1
Figure 7.1. Hot, radioactive gases were carried downwind
from the breached reactor at Chernobyl by northwesterly winds in
the wake of a low pressure system moving across the then-Soviet
Union, evaporating clouds and forming a radioactive distrail. This
was the first time in history that a radioactive distrail was
photographed. The white arrows point to the distrail (courtesy of
Hank Brandli).