The
Red Forest is the 10-square-kilometre
area surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power
Plant within the Exclusion Zone. The name "Red Forest" comes from the
ginger-brown colour of the pine trees after they died following the absorption
of high levels of radiation from the Chernobyl accident on 26 April 1986.
In
the post-disaster cleanup operations, the Red Forest was bulldozed and buried
in "waste graveyards".
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