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Photos show what daily life is really like inside Chernobyl's exclusion zone, one of the most polluted areas in the world

On April 26, 1986, reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, located in the then- Soviet Union , experienced a power surge, resulting in an explosion that sent a cloud of radioactive materials across parts of Europe.

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