40 years since the Chernobyl disaster
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Read the original article: https://www.france24.com/en/40-years-since-the-chernobyl-disaster
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“This Sunday marks 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster, which the UN says affected more than 3.5 million people and contaminated nearly 50,000 square kilometres of land, and which remains the worst nuclear accident in history, as France Télévisions gains rare access to the site for a closer look.”
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The evidence confirms the Chernobyl disaster occurred on April 26, 1986, and that it was a major nuclear accident. However, the evidence provided does not contain specific details regarding the UN stating it affected 'more than 3.5 million people,' contaminating 'nearly 50,000 square kilometres,' or the context of France Télévisions gaining rare access to the site. These specific quantitative claims and the context of the reporting are not supported by the provided search snippets or Wikipedia entries, making the overall claim uncorroborated by the evidence base.
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— The New Safe Confinement (NSC or New Shelter; Ukrainian: Новий безпечний конфайнмент, romanized: Novyy bezpechnyy konfaynment) is a structure put in place in 2016 to confine the remains of the number …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement
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— On 26 April 1986, reactor no. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located near Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (later Ukraine), exploded. With dozens of direct casualties and thousands of hea…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster
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— The Chernobyl disaster of 26 April 1986 triggered the release of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere in the form of both particulate and gaseous radioisotopes. As of 2025, it remains the wor…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_Chernobyl_disas…
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