Pookiebutt

In the aftermath, has your health been monitored? Has there been any compensation for any health related problems due to your exposure to Pripyat and Chernobyl? What about anyone else? How long were you there? Since you were there, has anyone treated you differently due to ignorance or fear of catching exposure from you? Kind of like the discrimination that happened to survivors of Nagasaki and Hiroshima?

Thank you for the reply.

I'm sorry about your co-worker. I hope that he came out okay. Terrible what had happened.

Few more questions if you don't mind, Sir? Were you strictly on clean up, sand movement, and mobilization of equipment or were you also a part of the evacuation process? If you were a part of the evacuation process, where did the majority of the civilians of Pripyat and surrounding areas go?

I've seen documentaries of Chernobyl and I vaguely remember the disaster in personal memory (I was 5 at the time). I was surprised to find out that there are still people that refused to leave the exclusion zone and still live within it at their own risk. I feel bad for them. Their town just immediately abandoned in a blink of an eye. Yet, those few people still thrive 30 years later. In your opinion, do you think the people will go back to at least the very edges of the exclusion zone to live?