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Chernobyl Nuclear Accident

April 26, 1986
Chernobyl, Ukraine
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident

A catastrophic nuclear accident occurs at Chernobyl Reactor #4 in the then Soviet Republic of Ukraine.

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