MOSCOW, April 26 - Lands surrounding the Chornobyl nuclear power plant will remain dangerous for thousands of years, Greens faction member Alexei Yablokov told Interfax. The Greens are a component of Russia??™s opposition Yabloko Party.

It will be impossible to live even 50 kilometers away from Chornobyl, because of plutonium pollution. Plutonium requires 300,000 years to totally decompose, he said.