Pripyat : Abandoned City

Pripyat is the purpose built city for the workers of the power plant and their families, lying just 3 Kms from Chernobyl. It took as long as 36 hours after the nuclear accident for the people of Pripyat to be evacuated from their homes. Little was known at the time of how affected they would be by the invisible radioactive cloud that was to contaminate the city. Believing that they would return soon, all 45 thousand residents boarded buses to take them away to safety. Most people at the time would have been engaging in going about their daily routines, as would anyone on a cheerful spring day.
School class rooms were abandoned, meals interrupted, Hospitals vacated, shoppers distracted from the shelves, vehicles left where they were and even the firing up of a fun fair had to be "postponed". Everyone assumed they would be able to resume their lives in the not too distant future.
However, the city was later deemed too dangerously contaminated to be inhabited ever again, resulting in what is probably now the most infamous ghost town in the world. Left exactly as it was, just a little overgrown with trees and plants which can, unlike humans, thrive in radioactive conditions, Pripyat is now a nature reserve where wild life can enjoy an undisturbed existence without the fear of human contact.

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