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Likewise, Pripyat remains a ghost town because it was planned city built to support the power plant workforce. Now that the power plants are no longer in operat

Likewise, Pripyat remains a ghost town because it was planned city built to support the power plant workforce. Now that the power plants are no longer in operation, there's no incentive to clean it up and resettle it.

anoncake 6y ago
How do you explain the chernobyl exclusion zone?
- moistbar 6y ago
  They never bothered to clean it up because without the power plant, the town was dead. Most of the people living there were plant workers.
  - anoncake 6y ago
    The soil and the groundwater are contaminated. You can't realistically replace those, not across 2,600 km^2.