Chernobyl's shadow

Chernobyl
A worker at Chernobyl's nuclear power plant wears a face mask as she colors borders in front of the plant, in preparation to mark the 20th anniversary of the catastrophe. A reactor at Chernobyl blew up on April 26, 1986 in the worst nuclear accident in history.
Photo by SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images

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