It was in October 1988, two and a half years after the disaster in Reactor Block 4 of the Chornobyl Soviet nuclear power plant (NPP), that I traveled to Chornobyl for the first time. I and other German anti-nuclear activists had been invited by the Soviet Writers’ Association. My most recent visit to the Exclusion Zone took place on April 26, 2016, the 30th anniversary of the disaster. In 2021, experts are trying to deal with the aftermath of the Reactor 4 explosion for a full 35 years.
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A special truck used in Chornobyl disaster liquidation is seen at the new-opened location for tourists in the abandoned city of Prypyat on April 15, 2021.
