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Chernobyl 30 years later: Inside exclusion zone (photos)

Certain territories of the rejection zone are less unpredictable, and visit administrators acquire voyagers for a more critical look.

A few occupants, as Ivan Semenyuk and his wife, Marya Kindrativna, were permitted to move back to their homes inside zones of the prohibition zone where radiation levels were viewed as insignificant.

Around 3,000 individuals take a shot at the decadeslong decommissioning process inside the zone. Before anybody can start such work, his or her body is screened to decide the radiation level.

A man walks past a ruined house in the abandoned village of Vezhishche in the 30 km exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, some 380 km southeast of the Belarus capital  Minsk, on April 23, 2011. April 26 marks the 26th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. One fifth of Belarus' agricultural land was contaminated following the blast at the nuclear reactor in the Ukraine and around 70% of the fallout fell in Belarus.  / AFP / VICTOR DRACHEV        (Photo credit should read VICTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images)

A steel and solid curve structure called the “New Safe Containment” is under development. Whenever finished, it will be moved over the handicapped Unit 4 to contain radioactivity.

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