Are there people still living in Pripyat, Ukraine after the chernobyl disaster, if yes, how can they?
I was just reading about Chernobyl on Wikipedia the other day. I believe that only authorized persons are allowed within a certain distance of the reactor (which is not formally out of service, by the way). Here’s a quote from Randall Bell- “There is a 17-mile (sic) Exclusion Zone around Chernobyl where officially nobody is allowed to live, but people do. These “resettlers” are elderly people who lived in the region prior to the disaster. Today there are approximately 10,000 people between the ages of 60 and 90 living within the Zone around Chernobyl. Younger families are allowed to visit, but only for brief periods of time. “Eventually the land could be utilized for some sort of industrial purpose that would involve concrete sites,” Randall Bell continues. “But estimates range from 60 – 200 years before this would be allowed. Farming or any other type of agricultural industry would be dangerous and completely inappropriate for at least 200 years. It will be at least two centuries befo
