The Belarus government announced they are allowing people to return to some parts of the exclusion zone around Chernobyl. In 1986, a nuclear reactor in Chernobyl suffered a major mishap and radioactive material escaped. Authorities tried to react quickly and relocated some 336,000 people from the surrounding area.

Dr. Zbigniew Jaworowski is a physicist who was born in Poland. He is the chairman for the Scientific Council of the Central Laboratory for Radiological Protection in Warsaw and former chair of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (1981 to 1982). He has published a paper in the 21st Century Science & Technology magazine that agrees with the government plan to repopulate certain areas.

Jaworowski thinks the governments over reacted and perhaps made the restricted zone around the reactor larger than was needed. Read about his conclusion at www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2010/Chernobyl_repopulation.pdf.