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Seuss also took videos of the Red Forest, so named because all the trees were set ablaze by the accident in 1986. Those trees have since been buried in plastic wrap at special sites to protect the ground water and the once-green area is now “brown, bumpy landscape full of uncut grass”.
The average radiation level in the field is about 300 to 500 times higher than normal. In some pockets, radiation is up to 100,000 times higher than it should be.
Seuss’s impressive visual chronicle also includes other videos of the ghost cities, including this one of Chernobyl’s central buildings and amusement parks.
When wandering through the blocks, the guide warned Seuss and his colleagues not to spend too much time in them “not because of physical danger but for emotional danger”.
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