Are some people still living in Chernobyl?

The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster caused the permanent evacuation of 350000 people. But a handful returned to the contaminated land near the plant, and 30 years later a few remain, outliving many of their neighbors who stayed away. read more

Yes. If you are wondering about the city of Chernobil, itself, then you should know that some people do still live there, the population is currently 625 people, as opposed to the population of 14000 , before the explosion happened. The conditions are very poor and of course there are only few houses. read more

“To the world, Chernobyl and Fukushima seem like dangerous places, but for the people who live there, that danger is simply a fact of life,” says photojournalist Michael Forster Rothbart, who spent two years cataloging the lives of people living in the shadow of nuclear accidents. read more