When you think of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, you may be able to conjure up memories of Chernobyl, the nuclear meltdown that took place on 26 April 1986 in what would become modern-day Ukraine. Thousands of people died from acute radiation sickness in the immediate aftermath or from radiation-induced cancers in the years following …
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