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Chernobyl Disaster Overview and Impact by rok jeranko is a document available to read on EtoBox.
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is located in Ukraine near the border of Belarus. It had four nuclear reactors, with the first two built in the 1970s and the second two in 1983. In 1986, workers at Chernobyl were performing a test on reactor 4 when it suffered a catastrophic failure, resulting in explosions that released radioactive material into the atmosphere. Over 100,000 square kilometers of land was contaminated, especially in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia. The disaster was initially covered up by Sov
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- rok jeranko
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- EN