Around 1,200 people quietly moved back into the Chernobyl exclusion zone after the evacuation and were mostly left alone. Most were elderly, many were women, and only a small remnant remains; the population has dwindled largely because it was old and never renewed

Picture the instruction. Pack for two or three days. Bring your documents, a change of clothes, enough food for the trip. Then the bus pulls away from your village and you never see the house again. That was what residents of Pripyat were told after reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded on [...] The post Around 1,200 people quietly moved back into the Chernobyl exclusion zone after the evacuation and were mostly left alone. Most were elderly, many were women, and only a small r