SOURCE: The Atlantic
6/3/19
tags: Chernobyl, Ukraine, nuclear history
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6/3/19
Photos From the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster
Breaking Newstags: Chernobyl, Ukraine, nuclear history
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2019/06/chernobyl-disaster-photos-1986/590878/
"As the HBO miniseries Chernobyl comes to a conclusion tonight, viewers will have been taken on a dramatic trip back to 1986, experiencing the horror and dread unleashed by the world’s worst-ever civil nuclear disaster. Thirty-three years ago, on April 26, 1986, a series of explosions destroyed Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4, and several hundred staff and firefighters tackled a blaze that burned for 10 days and sent a plume of radiation around the world. More than 50 reactor and emergency workers were killed in the immediate aftermath."
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