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CNN30: Chernobyl Disaster

On April 26, 1986, a power surge at the Chernobyl nuclear plant triggered an explosion that sent a huge radioactive cloud across Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and much of Europe. It was the world’s worst nuclear disaster, spewing 30 to 40 times the radiation of the bombs the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II. Thirty-one people died immediately, and thousands more are believed to have died since then from the disaster's effects. The plant finally closed in 2000.

 

Were you there? Do you remember when it happened? Open your shoeboxes, journals, scrapbooks and photo albums and share your photos, video and memories from this event.

 

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