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Chernobyl Reactor Fire Liquidators' Monument

A monument to the liqidators of Chernobyl's reactor fire rises in the center of the city. Officially fewer than fifty deaths are attributed to the disaster, while estimates of total deaths in the Ukraine and surrounding territories range from 4000 to Greenpeace's staggering tabulation of 100000 fatal cancers.

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Image Size: 1723x1190 / 1.9MB; Ukraine Soviet Chernobyl Russia Pripyat Environmental Disaster Nuclear Energy Radiation Radioactive April 26 1986 Nuclear Waste Toxic Land Abandoned Towns Cities Nuclear Reactor Uranium Nuclear Power History Environment Soviet Era Catastrophe Evacuated Abandoned Doomed Worst Eerie Meltdown Decay Health Science Technology Cancer
Contained in galleries: Chernobyl, Ukraine

A monument to the liqidators of Chernobyl's reactor fire rises in the center of the city. Officially fewer than fifty deaths are attributed to the disaster, while estimates of total deaths in the Ukraine and surrounding territories range from 4000 to Greenpeace's staggering tabulation of 100000 fatal cancers.