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

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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."

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TEDTalks, TED, Talks, adventure, disaster relief, nuclear energy, TEDGlobal 2013, 2013

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