From this epicenter came waves of mutated creatures, deadly radiation, and a strange, anomalous energy. Soviet authorities established a 30km 'Exclusion Zone' around this nuclear wasteland, but in 2006 a second explosion rocked the stricken reactor, obliterating all living things and causing the Zone's boundaries to ripple outwards. In 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster occurred at the Chernobyl power station.