Ghost city symbolizes cost of nuclear disaster focus 04/08/2011

Ghost city symbolizes cost of nuclear disaster

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04/08/2011
PRIPYAT — “Careful — do not touch anything with your bare hands!” warned the guide as we entered the kindergarten and our Geiger counter hissed like an angry rattlesnake.

On the floor and shelves were plastic cubes and teddy bears and kiddies’ books, just the things you would expect to find in a children’s playgroup.

But these toys were coated in a thick leprous white dust, for they had lain undisturbed for almost a quarter of a century.

And scattered among them were infant-sized gas masks.

Something terrifying had made the toddlers flee their innocent corner of the world. Their home, Pripyat, once a model city, had become the set for a true-life apocalypse movie..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

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