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30 Years On, Chernobyl Evacuees Yearn Return to ‘Death Zone'

In the early hours of April 26, 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in then Soviet-controlled Ukraine exploded, releasing huge amounts of radiation into the air. One-hundred-sixteen-thousand people living around the plant were evacuated, and 220,000 more were forced to leave in subsequent years as the so-called contaminated ‘death zone’ was expanded. For the evacuees, the pain is still felt three decades later. Alexandr Gruzevitch, 58, said he rarely returns to his...


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