19 stunning photos show what the radioactive area inside the Chernobyl nuclear plant looks like 32 years after the explosion

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April 26, 2018 1:21 PM

Go inside the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. Experts say more than 70,000 people experienced severe poisoning.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant was the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history.
As many as 150,000 people in the area were permanently relocated, and an estimated 4,000 clean-up workers got radiation poisoning.
Experts say that more than 70,000 people experienced severe poisoning from the accident on April 26, 1986.

On April 26, 1986, a radioactive releasemany times as large as the that of the Hiroshima bomb occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union.

Chernobyl would go down in history as one of the worst nuclear disasters.

The explosion at the plant in Pripyat, Ukraine, blasted radioactive gas and dust into the air, and winds carried it across central and southern Europe. More than 30 people died, and thousands of lives have been affected by the exposure to radiation.

About 150,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in the "nuclear exclusion zone" within an 18-mile radius of the plant. The town hardest hit was Pripyat, which remains empty.

In 2012, construction began on the New Safe Confinement, a structure to cover part of Chernobyl.

Here are 19 photos that go inside the eerie Chernobyl plant and the New Safe Confinement.

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