Isabelle Boemeke

So people were coming in.

The power plant was still producing electricity because people tend to think generally like everybody died and it became this wasteland and nobody can go in.

And it's just not true.

So people have moved back there.

Not everybody.

But there were some people who said, you cannot tell me what to do.

And they just went back.

There's this whole I think it's a BBC piece, but there is this whole piece on the people who went back to live in the Chernobyl exclusion zone because it was their homes.

No, it's not a flex at all.

But it's interesting that they have gone back and they're growing food there and they're eating their food and they're hunting and whatever.

And these people are like 100 years old.

It's true.

Like they made this whole profile piece on these people who are in their 90s who went back to live in the exclusion zone and they don't they don't care.

And obviously, like you have to go around with a little radiation monitor because it's not evenly distributed.

So in some parts there is more radiation than others.

And you can be going through like a little field that has no radiation or very little radiation.

And then right next to it, there is a very hot spot.

You know, they're constantly measuring as well to make sure that whatever they're touching, building and eating is not super radioactive.

No, I mean, I'm not recommending people go back.

No, I haven't been just because when I started doing this work, it was COVID.