Click on highlighted links below to view images IMAGE 1 Pripyat, Ukraine. This is the more than 50,000 population "workers city" for Chernobyl that received massive radiation from the 1986 accident and had to be permanently abandoned due to pervasive nuclear contamination. Pripyat has been crumbling into ruins for 23 years, helped by scavengers who have looted what people had to leave behind. IMAGE 2 Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP), Ukraine. The reactor that exploded, unit #4, can be seen within the rectangle in the upper left of the shot. #4 has been covered over by a blue "sarcophagus." In the lower right of this shot, one can see one completed cooling tower and the base for another one. These towers were for units #5 and #6, which were never built to completion after the 1986 accident.   IMAGE 3 Three Mile Island NPP (nuclear power plant), PA. Note in the shot that you can see that two cooling towers, for reactor 32, have no steam. This is the reactor that had the accident in 1979 and was shut down permanently. The other two cooling towers, to the north, are steaming away because they're connected to reactor #1, which remains in operation. There was only a limited evacuation, lasting several days, of the populated area immediately to the east of the TMI plant. IMAGE 4 Bushehr NPP, Iran. There are actually two reactor facilities that can be seen there. One was completed and will shortly begin operations. The other was badly damaged during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, and was never completed. The facility that will operate is to the northwest of the other. Both are close to the water in the center of the Bushehr facility. IMAGE 5 This is the Natanz uranium enrichment facility. IMAGE 6 This closeup shows an area within the Natanz facility where there has been significant excavation. This is what has led some analysts to say that Iran is burying part of Natanz deep underground to protect the uranium enrichment operation from attack, especially from the air. IMAGE 7 This closeup shows one of the numerous surface-to-air missile defensive batteries that surround Natanz. As the shot indicates, this battery has three missile launchers. IMAGE 8 This is a shot of the overall Arak facility, with the uncompleted reactor in the upper left of the compound, and the heavy-water plant to the lower right of the reactor. IMAGE 9 Arak reactor. This shot is a closeup of the heavy-water reactor being built. The shot was taken perhaps two to three years ago. Now, the Arak reactor is enclosed in a huge structure to prevent further aerial reconnaissance of the site. IMAGE 10 Arak heavy-water plant. This facility makes the heavy water, or deuterium, needed to run the reactor and produce plutonium.