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Yeah they are. They also use it as a preserve, there's some rare species of South American horse that has been introduced to the zone.
Top Gear Series 21 Returns 2nd February 2014
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Yeah they are. They also use it as a preserve, there's some rare species of South American horse that has been introduced to the zone.
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I believe the same is also true along the old cold war 'no man''s land' strip between east and western blocs.
PVR it - you get to fast forward the crap bits
i skip the star in the car bit, always bores me
Don't think this is true, there was a study showing the average life expectancy of these creatures was less in the exclusion zone than elsewhere in the world.
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That may be true but numbers are thriving is I think the point. There were no bears left in Ukraine before the accident and now the zone has quite a few of them.
It's crazy when you are in the zone, you can hear so much wildlife.
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So, will the zone ever be inhabited by humans again?
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Looking forward to this episode!
Thought last episode was a bit of a let down, not really interesting for me
Thought last episode was a bit of a let down, not really interesting for me
Next week's show will be Radioactive Gear.....
Word on the street is 2000 years. My word on the street is, guff, lets get back in there now
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Properly? I doubt it, I reckon there is a sound argument to build a large containment plant there for nuclear waste since it is already an exclusion zone!
There are quite a lot of people still living there though at varying levels of legality. Many returned when the Soviet Union collapsed, there was no more state welfare and they had nothing to their names but they had fully furnished homes in the zone. I met a few, the shocking thing is they grow food in the zone and eat it, that's the seriously dangerous part.
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That's going to get complaints 
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Were the people not rehoused after the disaster? I thought when the Soviet Union collapsed, people ended up owning the apartments they were living in.
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First story was about him being the first in to Kosovo and him wanting to put his soldiers on the outside of his tank so his guitar could be protected.
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