Thirty years later, some returning home to Chernobyl

The exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power station (AAP)

The exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power station (AAP)

On April the 26th, 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl (cher-NO-bil) nuclear plant in the former Soviet Union exploded.More than 300-thousand people would be displaced in what has come to be known as the world's worst nuclear disaster. Now, 30 years on, residents of Chernobyl are returning home. Mandarin Producer Lei Gong reports.



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