If you could visit Buryakivka, what you wouldn’t see is the radiation. The tainted Rassokha graveyard is bordered by a thick green forest located 25 kilometers southwest of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In 1987, the year after the Chernobyl disaster, Ukrainian authorities decided to quarantine the helicopters, tanks, buses, bulldozers, transporters, ambulances, and fire engines that had been heavily irradiated in emergency and cleanup missions. The site is located in the Exclusion Zone, an area covering more than 1,000 miles of Ukraine and Belarus where the public’s access is restricted and in some cases strictly forbidden.

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