More than three decades ago, a reactor at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian republic of the Soviet Union exploded. A fierce fire burned for the following two weeks, sending columns of radioactive gases and particles across the European landscape and beyond. The accident is an enduring subject of fascination — HBO recently adapted the event into a hit miniseries, and the site is a popular tourist destination — leading to conjecture and misconception.
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Visitors walk in the ghost city of Pripyat during a tour in the Chornobyl exclusion zone on June 7, 2019.
