38 Years After Chernobyl Disaster, 12% of Belarus’s Territory Is Still Contaminated. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was located near the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, then part of the Ukrainian SSR, close to the border with the Byelorussian SSR. Pripyat has been abandoned since the year of the accident, and an exclusion zone was created with a radius of 30 km around the plant. Over 100,000 people were evacuated from the zone. To the north of the Ukrainian … read more »
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