The Chernobyl disaster is regarded as the world's worst-ever civil nuclear incident. The nuclear accident occurred at the No.
4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, on 26 April 1986. At the time of the disaster, Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union.
Following the disaster the Soviet government engaged in a massive cover-up and it took them days to even acknowledge anything had happened.
When they did the TV announcement simply said: "There has been an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. One of the nuclear reactors was damaged.
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