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Thirty Years Later, Some Returning Home to Chernobyl

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On April the 26th, 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the former Soviet Union exploded. Image: The exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power station (AAP)


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By Michelle Rimmer, Cybelle Diones

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On April the 26th, 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in the former Soviet Union exploded. Image: The exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power station (AAP)


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.

 

... reports.

 


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