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Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

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Entrance to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone at Checkpoint "Dityatki"

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Alienation (Ukrainian: Зона відчуження Чорнобильської АЕС, zona vidchuzhennya Chornobyl's'koyi AES) is the officially designated exclusion area around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster.:p.4-5:p.49f.3 It is commonly known as the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and also as the 30 Kilometer Zone or simply The Zone[4]:p.2-5 (Ukrainian: Чорнобильська зона, Chornobyl's'ka zona). Established soon after the disaster in 1986 by the USSR military it initially existed as an area of 30 kilometer radius from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant designated for evacuation and placed under military control.[5][6] Its borders have since been altered, covering a larger area of the territory of Ukraine. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone refers to the area within Ukraine which borders a separately administered area, the Polesie state radiation and ecological reserve, to the north in Belarus. The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone is managed by an agency of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine whilst the power plant itself and its sarcophagus (and replacement) are administered separately.

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