About Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
Reactor Number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded at 1:23am on 26 April 1986 during a safety test, in the worst nuclear accident in history. The initial explosion and subsequent fire released 400 times more radiation than the Hiroshima bomb. An estimated 350,000 people were evacuated from the surrounding area, which remains largely uninhabitable today.
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