Name: Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home.
Uploaded: 2013-10-31T14:58:15Z
Duration: 8 min 38 s
Description: Chernobyl was the site of the world's worst nuclear accident and, for the past 27 years, the area around the plant has been known as the Exclusion Zone. And yet, a community of about 200 people live there -- almost all of them elderly women. These proud grandmas defied orders to relocate because their connection to their homeland and to their community are "forces that rival even radiation."

Chernobyl was the site of the world's worst nuclear accident and, for the past 27 years, the area around the plant has been known as the Exclusion Zone. And yet, a community of about 200 people live there -- almost all of them elderly women. These proud grandmas defied orders to relocate because their connection to their homeland and to their community are "forces that rival even radiation."

Holly Morris: Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home.

Why stay in Chernobyl? Because it's home.

In Chernobyl's shadow, 200 defiant 'self-settlers' choose ancestral ties over radiation fears, living in a land deemed uninhabitable.

Amidst Chernobyl's silence, wildlife thrives, and babushkas outlive relocated peers, hinting at home's potent, life-extending nourishment.

Chernobyl's defiance: elderly women outlive relocated counterparts by embracing their homeland, despite radiation risks.