Chernobyl was the worst nuclear accident in the history of the world. On April 26, 1986 the number 4 reactor in the nuclear plant blew up, sending radiation spewing across Europe as far north as Sweden. In the direct path of the immediate fallout was the town of Pripyat. In the hours after the...
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The surrounding area of the exclusion zone will not be safe for another 20,000 years