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

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

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Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

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Chernobyl: first pictures after the nuclear disaster.

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

Chernobyl: first pictures after the nuclear disaster.

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

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Chernobyl: first pictures after the nuclear disaster.

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

Chernobyl: first pictures after the nuclear disaster.

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

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Chernobyl, site of world's worst nuclear disaster, remains haunting place

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Chernobyl nuclear plant In Chernobyl, Ukraine On April 31, 1986-

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A woman holds, 02 October 1989 in the Tc

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Ukraine Commemorates 30th Anniversary Of Chernobyl Disaster

Contrôle de radiations, à la frontière de la RFA et de la RDA, suite à la catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl. Herleshausen, le 4 Mai 1986.

Catastrophe de Tchernobyl

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Heavy equipment surrounds the Chernobyl nuclear plant May 1, 1986 in Russia. Safety work is being done on block nr. 4 of the plant after an explosion...

Chernobyl Nuclear Plant

Workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine take part in a memorial ceremony for the victims of the nuclear disaster on April 26...

37th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster

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Press Tour of The Locations Depicted in The Chernobyl Series (HBO)

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Control of the radioactivity in RFA in France on May 02, 1986-

Deserted city Pripyat near Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine, on December 22, 2016. The Chernobyl accident occurred on 26 April 1986 at the...

Deserted city Pripyat near Chernobyl nuclear power plant

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Equipment stands in front of the sarcophagus that encloses stricken reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on the 30th anniversary...

Ukraine Commemorates 30th Anniversary Of Chernobyl Disaster

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...

Chernobyl, Nearly 30 Years Since Catastrophe

Stairwell stands in abandoned elementary school number five on April 9, 2016 in Pripyat, Ukraine. Pripyat, built in the 1970s as a model Soviet city...

Chernobyl, Nearly 30 Years Since Catastrophe

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

Boys w. limb & facial birth defect

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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Widow places portraits of vicitims during a ceremony at the Chernobyl memorial in Kiev 14 December 2006 to mark the Day of Liquidators, who worked on...

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Undated picture sent by Soviet television of a man injured in the blast of No. 4 reactor of Ukrainian Chernobyl nuclear plant, the world's worst...

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Two people in protective overalls, hard helmets, and masks stand in front of the New Safe Confinement at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the...

Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

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Contrôle de la radioactivité la la frontière entre la RDA et la RFA

Slavoutytch, ville construite après la catastrophe de Tchernobyl survenue le 26 avril 1986, afin d'accueillir la population ayant quitté Tchernobyl...

Catastrophe de Tchernobyl

Manifestation anti nucléaire suite à la catastrophe de Tchernobyl. Paris, le 24 Mai 1986.

Catastrophe de Tchernobyl

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The Evacuated And Devastated City Of Prypiat Near Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Radiation-contaminated fire service equipment stands parked in a special parking lot in the Chornobyl exclusion zone on April 12, 2025 in Prypiat,...

The Evacuated And Devastated City Of Prypiat Near Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Radiation-contaminated fire service equipment stands parked in a special parking lot in the Chornobyl exclusion zone on April 12, 2025 in Prypiat,...

The Evacuated And Devastated City Of Prypiat Near Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Radiation-contaminated fire service equipment stands parked in a special parking lot in the Chornobyl exclusion zone on April 12, 2025 in Prypiat,...

The Evacuated And Devastated City Of Prypiat Near Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Soviet propaganda posters and portraits of Soviet leaders remain amid debris in a building on April 12, 2025 in Prypiat, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. On...

The Evacuated And Devastated City Of Prypiat Near Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Soviet propaganda posters remain amid debris in a building on April 12, 2025 in Prypiat, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. On April 26 the fourth reactor of the...

The Evacuated And Devastated City Of Prypiat Near Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

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