Libelium Chernobyl, the same landscape 25 years after fire alarm En el área comprendida dentro del radio de 30 kilómetros alrededor de la central de Chernóbil es como si aquel 26 de abril de 1986 se hubiera detenido el tiempo. El ejemplo más evidente lo constituye la ciudad de Prípiats, situada a tan sólo dos kilómetros del reactor que hizo explosión.
Allí vivían los trabajadores e ingenieros de la planta y su población llegó a alcanzar los 50.000 habitantes. Tuvieron que abandonar el lugar deprisa y corriendo al día siguiente del accidente, llevando consigo poco más que el documento de identidad y el cepillo de dientes.
Hace tres años, aquellas personas recibieron por primera vez permiso para visit the ancient city, but on condition of not taking anything for what little the looters left in their homes. All items are still contaminated by radiation.
A ghost town
Prípiats
It looks like a ghost now offers. Grass grows through cracks in the asphalt and branches of trees surrounding the house facades. The communist paraphernalia is still intact. "We will honor the decisions of the XXVII Congress of the Communist Party of the USSR," says one of the signs installed on the local administration building.
They believed that vodka mitigated the effects of radiation inside the houses there are hundreds of gas masks, which were used to avoid inhalation of radioactive particles, and empty bottles of vodka. Believed that alcohol intake mitigated the effects of radiation. On the landings of the stairs is still furniture Prípiats dwellers tried in vain to bring them the day of evacuation.
Within the exclusion zone is also the town of Chernobyl, located 13 kilometers southeast of the plant. After his "off", which included substantial deforestation and demolition entire buildings, now houses the laboratories of various organizations responsible for cleaning the work area and make observations.
Permission to return
The area bounded then had 120,000 inhabitants and covered nearly 200 villages. Most are uninhabited and others, the most polluted, succumbed to the bulldozer blades. There are, however, a few families, consisting mainly of elderly, who were allowed to return home. They are the only permanent inhabitants of the "exclusion zone." His grandchildren often spend the summer with them without fear of the effects of radioactivity may have on the body of the child.
The human presence has done little to increase the number of wild animals, indicating that the boundary fence is broken in places. The main novelty is that, since 2008, anyone who wants to can go to a travel agency and buy a day trip to see the plant, the sarcophagus that covers the reactor 4, the city of Prípiats and some of the villages its colorful inhabitants.