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In the space of a few minutes the land, and the lives of every person living there, was irrevocably altered. The disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was, without a doubt, the biggest and most catastrophic man made disaster that the human race had ever witnessed.
The cost to the planet’s ecology was huge. The area around the power plant was covered with the greatest concentration of radioactive particles. Whole forests simply died off, along with all the animals that lived within them. The radioactive cloud that was produced drifted almost all the way around the planet. However, while the planet dealt with the physical effects of the disaster, it was the people who were left to cope with the psychological effects. An area covering thirty kilometers around the power plant was evacuated. This included two major cities and over seventy smaller villages. Most of the people were given hours to prepare for the evacuation. At the time, many were not told why they were being evacuated. It wasn’t until much later, when the truth of what had happened finally filtered down to these refugees, that they realized that they could never go back to their homes.
To return to ‘The Zone’, as it was being called, would be suicide. Initially the radiation from the accident was reason enough to stay away; after the second explosion the Zone had reputedly changed from being hazardous to downright dangerous.
There was nothing left anyway. After the initial accident the bulldozers had moved in quickly to ‘make safe’ many of the settlements. Nowadays then only people who entered the Zone were those with very specific reasons. The army patrols generally stayed on the perimeter, but there were those who ventured further in. Scientists were fairly common. They were still trying to figure out exactly what was going on in there. There were others who would regularly brave the dangers of the Zone for fortune, for glory and some of them even for the thrill.
But, apart from the people who saw the Zone as an opportunity, there were still those who saw it as something else entirely. They saw it still as their home.
So, anyone interested in entering 'The Zone'??.....
The cost to the planet’s ecology was huge. The area around the power plant was covered with the greatest concentration of radioactive particles. Whole forests simply died off, along with all the animals that lived within them. The radioactive cloud that was produced drifted almost all the way around the planet. However, while the planet dealt with the physical effects of the disaster, it was the people who were left to cope with the psychological effects. An area covering thirty kilometers around the power plant was evacuated. This included two major cities and over seventy smaller villages. Most of the people were given hours to prepare for the evacuation. At the time, many were not told why they were being evacuated. It wasn’t until much later, when the truth of what had happened finally filtered down to these refugees, that they realized that they could never go back to their homes.
To return to ‘The Zone’, as it was being called, would be suicide. Initially the radiation from the accident was reason enough to stay away; after the second explosion the Zone had reputedly changed from being hazardous to downright dangerous.
There was nothing left anyway. After the initial accident the bulldozers had moved in quickly to ‘make safe’ many of the settlements. Nowadays then only people who entered the Zone were those with very specific reasons. The army patrols generally stayed on the perimeter, but there were those who ventured further in. Scientists were fairly common. They were still trying to figure out exactly what was going on in there. There were others who would regularly brave the dangers of the Zone for fortune, for glory and some of them even for the thrill.
But, apart from the people who saw the Zone as an opportunity, there were still those who saw it as something else entirely. They saw it still as their home.
So, anyone interested in entering 'The Zone'??.....
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