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A frozen world, sealed in time. Earth, as it was known, changed on April 26, 1986, at 1.23 am, when the night split open. Inside Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a routine safety test spiralled into disaster. What ensued was the worst nuclear catastrophe in history. Almost 50,000 inhabitants of nearby Pripyat were evacuatedContinue reading “Chernobyl Disaster Zone – Four Decades On”