On April 26, , reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located in the then-Soviet Union, experienced a power surge, resulting in an explosion that sent a cloud of radioactive materials across parts of Europe.
The accident has gone down in history as the world's worst nuclear disaster. Around , people were evacuated following the explosion, with many leaving their homes and all of their worldly belongings behind forever. The areas surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, including the nearby city of Pripyat, have since deteriorated into abandoned ghost towns.
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Today, 30 kilometres around Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant remains to be an exclusion zone. In Prypyat, now a ghost town that previously served the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the deserted buildings decay slowly after the evacuation, trees grow on its boulevards.
Our editor Natalia Liubchenkova has returned there 4 times over the years, check her photographs in this gallery. Slide below to see how the 4th reactor of Chernobyl Nuclear power plant looked before and after the installation of the new shield in Until then it was covered by an older casing installed shortly after the disaster.
It served almost 30 years and needed to be changed for a long time. Breus says Chernobyl is a museum, even though it does not have an official status of one. The Association of Chernobyl Tour Operators has even bigger plans for it.
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