Spectators at a Sunday afternoon football match between Zone-2 and Zone-3. Both places are only a few kilometres away from the contaminated closed zone (Zone-1). The soil in and around the village is contaminated and crops grown here still cause sickness. From the government they get a mere 25 US cents per month to buy clean food.
Chernobyl in the Ukraine became the site of the most infamous nuclear disaster accident of all. In 1986 the explosion of the nuclear reactor affected the lives of millions in Western Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. Both countries have plans to build new reactors to export energy to Europe.