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Today in History: April 26, the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster

Also on this date, Vermont Gov. Howard Dean signed the nation’s first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.

The Chernobyl nuclear power reactor from a distance.
An aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear power reactor in Chernobyl, Ukraine, shows damage from an explosion and fire on April 26, 1986. The blast killed 31 people and sent large amounts of dangerous radioactive material into the atmosphere. The contamination was carried across western Europe by the wind to Sweden, Finland, the northern part of Britain, France and Italy. The ghosts of history’s worst nuclear reactor accident lurked everywhere in the surrounding countryside more than ten years later as more than 40,000 people were diagnosed with cancer. (AP Photo/Tass)
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In the worst nuclear disaster in history, an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine caused radioactive fallout to begin spewing into the atmosphere.

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