1.   The ordinance prohibits the city from recharging in contaminated areas.

2.   Some of the money has been earmarked to pay for the re-settlement of people from contaminated areas.

3.   Children were evacuated from the village of Georgievka, within the contaminated area, in what was described as a precautionary measure.

4.   Animals can then become infected after grazing in contaminated areas, he said.

5.   As local firefighters kept their distance, the soldiers were assigned to enter the contaminated area to find out what happened.

6.   A dirty bomb probably would not kill more people than a conventional explosive, scientists said, unless the people in the contaminated areas were not evacuated.

7.   Agency officials have a proposal for moving some of the residents out of the contaminated area.

8.   But it would make people reluctant to be in a contaminated area, said Dr. Philip Anderson, director of the domestic security initiative at the center.

9.   Immediately after the disaster, he says, the Soviet authorities moved entire populations out of villages near Chernobyl and designated contaminated areas as closed military zones.

10.   One collateral illness appears to be tuberculosis, whose incidence has risen sharply in contaminated areas.