KIEV (AFP) – The world on Tuesday marks a quarter century since the world's worst nuclear disaster at Chernobyl in Ukraine, haunted by fears over the safety of atomic energy after the Japan earthquake.In the early hours of April 26, 1986, workers at the Chernobyl atomic power station were carrying out a test on reactor four when operating errors and design flaws sparked successive explosions.
The radioactive debris landed around the reactor, creating an...Read the entire article
U.S. Yahoo! Editorial says: "Play room in the creche/kindergarten in the center of Pripyat." - Pedro Moura PinheiroThe Ukranian town of Pripyat was abandoned and declared an exclusion zone after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
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