The Ferris wheel that looms eerily as a somber reminder of the May Day celebrations that were never to be.
On April 26th 1986, the Unit 4 reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power station, located eight miles north of Kiev in the former USSR exploded. It was the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever experienced. It released catastrophic amounts of radioactive material into the environment, which spread over Ukraine, Belarus and as far away as Western Europe. The impact caused a global reaction, while people in the region suffered and continue to suffer physically, mentally and financially.
The town of Pripyat was built for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the mid-seventies . People who lived...
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