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Chernobyl disaster

Took place on April 26, 1986

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The 41st anniversary falls on April 26, 2027, in 184 days.

On 26 April 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union, exploded.

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