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Chernobyl legacy 30 years after disaster: Pictures

An overgrown house hastily abandoned after the Chernobyl accident (National Geographic)

Thirty years ago today, an explosion ripped through reactor Number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine. Two workers were killed in the blast and countless more died from radiation exposure since then. The city’s some 135,000 inhabitants were evacuated and a 19-mile exclusion zone was set up around the plant a few days later. The disaster’s legacy still lives on…

A doll and shoes lay on a bench in a nursery school of the "ghost town" of Pripyat near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 22, 2016. (Photos by AFP)
A picture taken on April 22, 2016, shows letter boxes in an abandoned residential building of Pripyat near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
A picture taken on April 22, 2016 shows a deserted residential building in Pripyat near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
A picture taken on April 8, 2016, shows a view of Pripyat near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
A European gray wolf roams an area off limits to people near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Wolf numbers in the area have increased to seven times those of other regional reserves. (National Geographic) 


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