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Photos from Chernobyl, Ukraine today, after a nuclear accident in April 1986.
- The Chernobyl accident in was the result of a flawed reactor design that was operated with inadequately trained personnel.
- The resulting steam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reactor core into the atmosphere and downwind.
- Two Chernobyl plant workers died on the night of the accident, and a further 28 people died within a few weeks as a result of acute radiation poisoning.
- UNSCEAR says that apart from increased thyroid cancers, “there is no evidence of a major public health impact attributable to radiation exposure 20 years after the accident.”
- Resettlement of areas from which people were relocated is ongoing
The city is still abandoned after 26 years.
