Facts We May Not Know About Chernobyl Disaster

Some People Refuse to Leave

Around the disaster site spans the exclusion zone, an area full of cities and wildlife too close to the Chernobyl nuclear reactor to consider habitable. All of the people who used to live in the cities within the exclusion zone have been evacuated, or rather, almost all of them. About 200 people refuse to leave their homes that they had been living in for years prior to the event. Despite warnings, these citizens settle illegally within the zone so as not to give up their old lives.

Despite a higher risk of developing dangerous conditions like cancer, these people stay peacefully hidden away in towns said to not be livable in for another 20,000 years.