That's not true, anymore. They actually take tourists in there, and researchers have been in and out studying the wildlife. There is quite a few documentaries on YT about it. Very interesting, as it shows that after 2 decades, radioactive material was successfully sequestered into the local environment, lowering radiation levels enough for humans to actually survive, though be it, not ideal....

some folks never left the exclusion zone and are still there today. bald and bankrupt has videos where he meets them.

So how many people worked on the sarcophagus cover that was put over the destroyed reactor? And for how many years did those people work on it?