Ukraine seeks UNESCO status for Chernobyl to help manage visitors to nuclear site
The location of the world's worst nuclear accident is attracting more and more visitors, leading authorities to bid for world..
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Chernobyl disaster
1986 nuclear accident in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
The Chernobyl disaster was caused by a nuclear accident that occurred on Saturday 26 April 1986, at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history and was caused by one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan.
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