We make a stop at the bridge over the cooling pond channel.
American scientists from Taxes University monitored Chernobyl's wild life for more then decade detected no decrease of animals birth rate or any signs of mutation from the radiation. Infact after people left their homes wild population grew up rapidly here. People who work in Chernobyl presently can see wild boars on the streets even in a day time as well as Prezhivalski horses which were brought here from Askania Nova sanctuary located on the South of Ukraine. The horses seem to love it here and they multiply fast - however avoid people and ignore any attempts to be friendly. Wolves feel home too - that's why they shoot them in Chernobyl zone from time to time to keep their number under control. We're making a stop at the bridge over the cooling pond channel hoping to see a giant catfish. There are few huge catfish in the pond - they show their heads once you start to throw bread in the water - but this doesn't happen every time however you'll always see hundreds of other fish cruising around and fighting for bread. When we say a giant catfish we mean a fish up to two meters long. We don't think it's mutated - maybe just because it's been there for 20 years and it grew big since nobody fishes it - who knows…

Our next stop is near the reactor #4.
Almost everybody saw it's pictures before that's why everybody admits it's the most spooky point of the tour. The reactor is covered with a sarcophagus that need a major refurbishment as it has lots of cracks and as they say isn't safe anymore. It was built by robots (machines operated by radio) in 1986 and has a 190 tons "stew" of boiling radioactive materials inside with a temperature +6,000 C. There are rumors that nothing left inside...

There is an approved 1.5 billion dollars project of the new "state of the art" shelter for the reactor #4 - the new arch will be the biggest arch in the world. The plan is to start the construction in 2010.The Geiger meter shows anywhere from 600 to 1000 m.r./h - it's getting hot…