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Chernobyl catastrophe: cloud of radiation

October 6, 2015 Alex

Chernobyl disaster mapped

The Chernobyl catastrophe took place on 26 April 1986 at the Nuclear Power Plant, near the town of Pripyat in the USSR. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history. The accident response and decontamination cost about 18 billion rubles or approximately US$68 billion in 2019 (corrected for inflation).

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United States Border Walls

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The world’s first voronoi beer map

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Chernobyl disaster mapped

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Hours worked per American, British, French and Japanese aged 15- to 64 since 1950