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Gallery: Chernobyl, the biggest nuclear plant disaster in history, marks 33rd anniversary EuroNews, By Natalia Liubchenkova 26/04/2019 -Ukraine marks the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the biggest one in the history of nuclear energy.
The consequences of it are still impossible to evaluate – but we do know that a huge radioactive cloud gradually reached almost every corner on Earth.
The first responders worked on the station with the minimum of protective clothing, around 30 of them died from radiation poisoning in days. Overall, over half a million people took part in clean-up efforts.
Oleksiy Breus, was among them, initially, he was an operator of the 4th block control panel, on duty on the day of the disaster there, he later joined the forces of the first responders. Chernobyl is a big lesson, he told Euronews. We learned a lot technologically, and also in overcoming the results, and how to deal with it, how to use it. Tourism is one of the options on how to use Chernobyl. Tourism here is not entertainment. Even when the tourists come here for entertainment, they return in a totally different mood. Visiting the exclusion zone gives a feeling that you are now connected to this event of the Biblical scale.” 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 correspondent Natalia Liubchenkova has returned there 3 times over the years, check her photographs in this gallery. [on original]………… https://www.euronews.com/2019/04/26/gallery-chernobyl-the-biggest-nuclear-plant-disaster-in-history-marks-33rd-anniversary |
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April 27, 2019 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News
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