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View of the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant three days after the explosion on April 29, 1986 in Chernobyl:,Ukraine.

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Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few months after the disaster. Chernobyl, Ukraine, USSR, 1986.

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View of the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant three days after the explosion on April 29, 1986 in Chernobyl:,Ukraine.

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Sarcophagus over Reactor No. 4 of Chernobyl nuclear power plant

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Power station at the riverbank, Chernobyl Power Plant, Chernobyl, Ukraine

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Calendar from the fateful year 1986 lies on the floor of a former hospital on April 9, 2016 in Pripyat, Ukraine. Pripyat, built in the 1970s as a...

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Boys w. Limb & facial birth defect deformities linked to radiation contamination fr. 1986 nuclear plant accident, at children's home for Chernobyl...

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Big wheel stands derelict in the ghost city of Prypyat, near Chernobyl nuclear power plant on February 22, 2011. Today Ukraine's Emergency ministry...

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