PRIPYAT, UKRAINE -- Before the fire, the vomiting, the deaths and the vanishing home, it was the promise of bumper cars that captured the imagination of the boys.It will be 30 years ago Tuesday that Pripyat and the nearby Chernobyl nuclear plant became synonymous with nuclear disaster, that the word Chernobyl came to mean more than just a little village in rural Ukraine, and this place became more than just another spot in the shadowy Soviet Union.
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A picture taken on April 22, 2106 shows a Soviet Union emblem set up on a street of the "ghost town" of Pripyat near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 22, 2016. April 26, 2016 marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
