Chernobyl 30 Years Later
The aerial view of the reactor four at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Chernobyl.
Ukraine marks the 30th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster that happened in Chernobyl on April 26. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in Ukraine, spreading radioactive material across much of the Northern Hemisphere. Thirty years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is surrounded by both a hushed desolation and clangorous activity, the sense of a ruined past and a difficult future.
Ukraine marks the 30th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster that happened in Chernobyl on April 26. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in Ukraine, spreading radioactive material across much of the Northern Hemisphere. Thirty years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is surrounded by both a hushed desolation and clangorous activity, the sense of a ruined past and a difficult future.
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Abandoned apartment buildings in the town of Pripyat near Chernobyl, with a chimney (L) at the destroyed reactor and a gigantic arch-shape confinement to cover the remnants of the exploded reactor, in the back, at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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These are the front pages of four British morning newspapers reflecting the nuclear accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union.
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Workers build an arch-shape confinement that will be moved on rails over the sarcophagus and reactor building damaged by explosion, at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine.
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The old sarcophagus (R) over the reactor building damaged by explosion and a new confinement (L) under construction at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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Workers build an arch-shape confinement that will be moved on rails over the sarcophagus and reactor building damaged by explosion, at the Chernobyl nuclear power.
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A worker passes by a storage facility under construction for nuclear waste at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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A monument to workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, who died in the 1986 catastrophe, at the entrance to the plant.
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A crucifix and a radiation sign at the entrance to the out-of-bounds town Pripyat close to the Chernobyl nuclear power station are seen through a bus window.
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Five-year-old Alek Zhloba, who suffers from leukaemia, is held by his doctor in the children's cancer ward of the Gomel Regional Hospital, in Gomel, Belarus. There are tracks from medical procedures on his head. Much of the nuclear fallout from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster fell on Belarus.
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