In April 1986, reactor four in the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, causing a nuclear fallout 400 times larger than the Hiroshima bomb. Around 335,000 people were evacuated – 115,000 from the surrounding area in 1986 and 220,000 people from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine after 1986. A 30km exclusion zone was set up, leaving several ‘ghost towns’ including the nearby town of Pripyat.
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Workers walk next to the New Safe Confinement over the fourth block of the Chornobyl nuclear plant on April 26, 2017, the 31st anniversary of the Chornobyl disaster.
