Don't ask me why, but this whole Chernobyl ghost town thing reminds me an awful lot of China's ghost cities. The buildings in Chernobyl seem like a town that was built, but never really inhabited. There just isn't enough "stuff" in the buildings. Either it was there and removed, or it was never there to begin with. If it was removed, then it wasn't because of radiation, as it would have taken too long to pack it all up and get it out of there. Besides, I can't imagine anyone removing/stealing it after the fact, as it was reputed to all be radioactive. It would have been a death sentence to take it out of there, assuming this really was a nuclear accident.

I'm really suspicious of all of those books tossed in a heap on the floor. It looks as though someone was searching for something and then just tossed them one-by-one on the floor. If there was radiation, who would take the time to pull them out only to throw them on the floor?