Article 1BTC3 'Not a year went by without a Chernobyl funeral': 30 years since disaster hit

'Not a year went by without a Chernobyl funeral': 30 years since disaster hit

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Matthew Holmes and Guardian readers
from Environment | The Guardian on (#1BTC3)
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We meet the people most affected by the nuclear catastrophe, from the Pripyat evacuee to the daughter of a KGB first responder

On 26 April 1986 one of four nuclear reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded, triggering the biggest nuclear catastrophe in history.

Some living nearby found their lives changed almost immediately, for others across Europe it would be weeks or months until the full scale of the human and environmental disaster was realised.

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