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Chernobyl at 40: the lies, the loss and why we can’t let go

Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine ...

The phone went when the minister was asleep. It was Chernobyl. He thought it was Armageddon

Forty years on, former under-secretary of state for foreign affairs Tim Eggar recalls how the nuclear disaster plunged the ...