tv Reporter Deutsche Welle April 28, 2019 5:15am-5:30am CEST
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fifteen twenty seconds. to build it in a good way. around the reactor was completed in two thousand and eighteen. a multinational project that cost more than two billion euros the giant steel shelter is designed to contain radiation from the plant for the next century but is still only a temporary solution. deep inside is the molten core of the reactor known as the most toxic voiced in the world just a few minutes exposure to its intense radiation would be lethal. like mass will remain radioactive for another hundred thousand years. the canteen is just a stone's throw from the. contamination checks are mandatory before entering the tourists are not exempt. this is where people who work at the site eat lunch.
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in the city of its name is. to the world's worst manmade disaster. but it isn't abandoned life goes on at least to some degree buildings have been restored to service housing for workers in the zone. there are bars a sports facility and shops with a small selection of goods. but because living in the exclusion zone is illegal people commute they spend one week here to spend time in another place outside. also has a room here every fortnight he returns to his wife in their home three hundred kilometers away. it hasn't been easy for the residents of trying to start new lives elsewhere.
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through to no group the people in chernobyl are unable to move on so they won't find work anywhere else and these they've been working here for twenty or thirty years they've grown accustomed to the place people have grown accustomed to each other as a it's too late to leave that to old they're unfamiliar with modern technologies and computers and they can't speak english. and. they're living out their old age here. and i've used to live in this room with his wife but she had to leave his own because of health issues. he wants to stay a few more years to work in money then he too will leave the zone to start a new chapter he has it all planned. a good
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pension quiet old age a fishing rod a river and a dock. back at the checkpoint for the tourists it's almost time to leave. which to take away from their journey into the exclusion zone. with the first one might say a lot of historical facts were conveyed also by the guide lots of interesting details. but then we saw quite a lot it was a first hand experience like being in a living museum or cemetery depending on how to look at it. ok for you of course because i can alternately it's up to each individual to decide what they gain from this kind of terrorism whether it's simply snapshots or more than just memories.
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the message they want to convey. or a real awareness of what could happen if a reactor blew up in a heavily populated area in france or england on good don't is unclear this could happen near paris brussels or london specific my take away is the empathy i feel for the people who live here also it showed me the same thing could happen anywhere else and it would be equally dramatic. and next week i must say the magic is all the way. at the end of their tour the tourists are handed a certificate identifying them as true zone visitors should be in this group it's is a zero point zero zero two zero but it is the go bold moves for for our let's roll for the hours they have that your low blows will. that's about equal to the dose of radiation passengers sustain on a flight from paris to new york. well
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if this is them does all that exists here so is that usually enough but you know it will be my sea. which is a corner as a big. no no surgery it was my pleasure coverage of israel. then it's time to return to kiev for the tourists this was an excursion a once in a lifetime experience. the area of the exclusion zone will remain contaminated for thousands of years because of a single accident in a nuclear power plant. sherry believes it offers more than just a stark lesson for mankind. well and you know this area is actually one of the cleanest areas not in the only in ukraine but perhaps in europe because for thirty years there were literally no industry here visit museums no agriculture
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group culture views the best kind of good sides well the most dramatic. visit missions of the vehicle. people visit you know urban wastes and everest and. he has a road map for the region's future so he wants to see the exclusion zone added to unesco's list of world heritage sites. he's already filed the application i believe it is this area should be drawn down into a national you know. national memorial and make sure all. to keep the memory ends and the luge. technology which was employed here and which failed you know to too powerful to convey so lessons of this event and i'm very far live in this area you know sizzlin because in my you know it is one. of my you muslims my native places and of course i clear through
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