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particularly in a country where many vividly remember living through the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which killed at least 30 people and spewed radioactive fallout over much of the Northern Hemisphere.

Read more: Chernobyl was the world's worst nuclear-power-plant accident. Here's how it compares with Fukushima and Three Mile Island. In the years since, those dangers have gone down significantly.

Not only that, Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ ... Delve in and read on to know the details. The disaster led to the death of two workers, and over 100 people were affected. Soon after, around ...