On This Day: May 2, 1986 - The City of Chernobyl Is Evacuated

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Pete

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Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: May 2, 1986 - The City of Chernobyl Is Evacuated.

On May 2, 1986, six days after the explosion at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the city of Chernobyl was officially evacuated. While the nearby town of Pripyat had been evacuated on April 27, the full evacuation of surrounding areas including the city of Chernobyl itself took place gradually over several days, with May 2 marking one of the final major evacuations.

The delay in evacuation exposed thousands to dangerously high levels of radiation and has been widely...
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