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What was the catastrophe of Chernobyl, the worst nuclear accident in history?

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Thirty-eight years ago, on April 26, 1986, the number four reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the then Soviet Union suffered a catastrophic collapse. The government evacuated thousands of people from the area, and the 30-year-old exclusion zone around the plant will remain uninhabitable for decades. It was the worst nuclear disaster in history, releasing 400 times more radioactive material than the Hiroshima atomic bomb. More than 3…

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