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Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
In April 1986 a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, in the USSR. Sergii Mirnyi monitored radiation levels in the exclusion zone around the plant.
In April1986 a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, in the USSR. Sergii Mirnyi was in charge of a monitoring unit which measured radiation levels in the 30 km exclusion zone around the plant.
(Photo: Chernobyl nuclear power station after the accident. Credit: Associated Press)
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