Chernobyl disaster 30 years on: what do you remember?
by Guardian readers from Environment | The Guardian on (#1B571)
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On 26 April 1986 one of the four reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. It was the biggest accident of its kind in history - a human and environmental disaster that triggered a political storm that has lasted for decades.
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