Pripyat- As we entered the kindergarten our guide warned us not to touch anything with our bare hands. This little kindergarten class room was filled with child toys and small cubbies we noticed that everything was covered in dust.

This was not simply dust though. It was the leftovers of the first nuclear accident to ever occur. In this small, innocent corner of the world, a nuclear reactor exploded. Then caused problems in the environment, and killed many people.  After the explosion, the Soviet Union decided to shut down the construction of new nuclear reactors. But they did not shut down the ones they already had because many citizens are employed there and it brings money into their country.

Now the town is deserted. It is highly dangerous to enter into the region without protective gear.

I think it is kind of neat that my teacher picked this article for me to blog about because guess what! We just barely learned all of this in my geography class. Yeah. I learned all about this little accident and the country’s reaction to it. They weren’t too happy….. Let’s just leave it at that. But yeah it was a pretty sad accident.