CHERNOBYL, 25 YEARS LATER

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant in northern Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. In the early morning of April 26th 1986, an explosion at the plant released a radioactive cloud that spread over large swathes of Europe and western Russia. It has been difficult to gauge the human impact of the accident. Millions of people were exposed to radiation, and 350,000 were permanently evacuated from their homes.

The Economist has assembled a moving—and unsettling—slideshow of images from the disaster and the aftermath. See them here.

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