Name - Truman R

Title of article – Ghost City symbolizes cost of nuclear disaster

Author – Unknown

Date – Unknown

                This article is about a city in the Soviet Union called Pripyat. In this now abandoned city, there was a terrible disaster that happened that caused everybody who lived there and many places around it to evacuate. Prpyat’s entire population of almost about 50,000 fled after Chernobyl’s No. 4 reactor exploded in a devil’s brew of caesium, strontium, iodine, and pluotonium on April 26, 1986.

                People who lived here said that it was the best city and place to live in in the whole Soviet Union. That is until the terrible nuclear explosion occurred forcing them all to leave without their things in an emergency evacuation. It is now just a ghost town and no humans live here. Some people go on tours and things for research here but they are very careful on making sure they don’t get radiation poisoning and washing everything off before they come back.

                I think that this would be terrible if it happened to you and you were forced to leave and barely have anything left. They are comparing this to the nuclear explosion that occurred in Japan after the tsunami and earthquake and saying that this story might happen in Japan all over again. I really hope that it doesn’t happen in Japan because that would be very sad and terrible.