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Title:USSR: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster
Date:26th April 1986
Summary:Two people died and 100 were contaminated by radioactivity after an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine in the USSR. On April 26 initial reports from the West said the death toll was in the thousands. Soviet authorities faced international condemnation for not revealing the full extent of the disaster as a cloud of radioactive material moved over western Europe.
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Location:USSR CCCP CHERNOBYL UKRAINE
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