Chernobyl: 35 years after the ‘worst nuclear disaster’ in history
Three and a half decades after the Chernobyl meltdown officials seek to make it an UNESCO World Heritage site
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It is often described as the world’s worst nuclear disaster both in terms of casualties and implications for the environment and global economy.
The Chernobyl disaster, as it is widely known, occurred on 26th April 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the town Pripyat in northern Ukraine.
The town was founded on 4th February 1970 as the ninth ‘atomgrad’, a type of closed town to serve the Chernobyl station. Today, 35 years later, Pripyat remains a ghost town…
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