Matthew Wagner
March 2, 2001
2nd hour
The Nuclear Accident in Chernobyl
The main door, almost blocked by overgrown bushes and weeds, rattles in the cold Ukrainian wind. The former day-care center's rooms are a mess of abandoned dolls, stuffed animals, tiny shoes, and broken glass. Water from melting snow on the roof drips through cracks in the concrete ceiling. Between rows of metal cribs, child-size gas masks peer up from the floor where they fell during the rushed evacuation, over a decade ago. Can you imagine going back to this horrible setting? Luckily, we didn't have to experience it in real life, but people like Maria Shobkuta, and Vasil Herashchenko did, and after the evacuation, they moved back.
The day-care center was located just two miles away from Chernobyl, a nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine. Today there is an off-limits area of 38 miles in diameter, officially called the "Zone of Alienation," surrounds the day-care center, and the rest of the......
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