Chernobyl Disaster 1986

On April 18th 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located in the Soviet Union near Pripyat in Ukraine, exploded. Further explosions followed sending a plume of highly radioactive fallout into the atmosphere and over parts of the western Soviet Union, Europe and eastern North America.

Huge areas in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia were badly contaminated and over 330,000 people had to be evacuated and resettled.

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anonymous | 14/02/2011 13:24:15

Omg thats well bad,cant believe that many died and suffered from cancer wish there were something i could do to treat those with cancer, just think about there families xxxxx R.I.P to all those people who died and died of cancer xxxxxx

Chernobyl Disaster 1986

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