Chernobyl is recognized as historically, the world's worst nuclear disaster. With this disaster taking place, in the city of Ukraine housing, a population of about fourteen thousand people left many without homes due to the need to evacuate the area. About four thousand deaths occurred due to radiation exposure, along with three and a half million people exposed to Radiactive nuclides (atoms that contain nuclear energy). Radiation contaminated food sources, making life inhospitable. With efforts to contain the radiation by the soviet government, the sarcophagus was created; which covered the entire nuclear power station. With the sarcophagus now degrading, the government decides to cover the plant with a steel cover; which will stop radiation for escaping for another one hundred years. This plan allows for more people to think of better solutions. While this disaster is noted as being the worst nuclear disaster, the government is constantly looking for more ways to clean up this mess, to stop future mishaps. Now 190 people live just outside the "Zone of Alienation", along with wildlife who occupy the abandoned buildings as their home.
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