CHERNOBYL ANNIVERSARY

The exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power station Source: AAP

On April the 26th, 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl 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.

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