On the 30th anniversary of the accident, access within the 18-mile exclusion zone, which includes the abandoned city of Pripyat, is still restricted.

禁区直径达18英里（约合30公里），被遗弃的城市普里皮亚季也在其中。 事故发生30周年之际，要进入这片禁区仍然受到限制。

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Many of these former settlements are in much better condition than Pripyat and offer a unique peek into Soviet rural life.

BBC: A day trip to Chernobyl

Pripyat was home to 50, 000 people, including workers from the nearby Chernobyl plant, until its evacuation some 36 hours after the blast at the reactor.

BBC: A day trip to Chernobyl

She took us first to Pripyat, the town built to house the Chernobyl workers when it was built in the 1970s, now utterly abandoned.

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