A cracked and dying tree stands near abandoned houses in Tulgovichi on April 10, 2006. Tulgovichi, which is in the Polesie Radiological-Ecological National Park and about 30 miles (50 kilometers) from the closed Chernobyl nuclear plant, is the only place where the government allows eight people to live, although illegally, within the high radiation contaminted park. Twenty years after the April 26, 1986, nuclear accident in present-day northern Ukraine dozens of villages remain empty in the "closed zone" and in the national park in southern Belarus. Belarus suffered from the most radiation fallout following the accident, with 70 precent of the radiation falling in Belarus.
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