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Chernobyl 30 years later: Inside exclusion zone (photos)

A 2011 report by the World Health Organization noticed that in “zones with natural poor soils, milk may in any case be delivered with groupings of Cs-137 [Cesium-137] that surpass national guidelines for activity. In these territories, countermeasures and natural remediation may at present be justified.”

CHORNOBYL, UKRAINE - SEPTEMBER 29:  A book of Ukrainian literature lies among books, clothes and other items strewn on the floor in an abandoned music school of Zalisya village located inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone on September 29, 2015 near Chornobyl, Ukraine. Zalisya, a village that before 1986 had a population of approximately 3,000, lies about 15 kilometers south of the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant, where in 1986 workers inadvertantly caused reactor number four to explode, creating the worst nuclear accident in history. Authorities evacuated 120,000 people, incuding the residents of Zalisya and 85 other villages, as well as of the towns of Chornobyl and Pripyat. Today the Zalisya site stands abandoned and overgrown with trees and vegetation. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

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