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The Telegraph: 30 years after Chornobyl nuclear disaster, authorities plan for the next century

By The Telegraph.

Published April 26, 2016 at 11:04 am

A man walks through 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.

Photo by AFP

Surrounded by barbed wire, abandoned by man and infamous for a catastrophic nuclear accident, the Chernobyl exclusion zone is a byword for desolation.