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Chernobyl
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The accident which occurred at the nuclear power station in Chernobyl on April 26, 1986 is, by its scale and by the harm it caused, one of the largest catastrophes on our planet in the recorded history of mankind. It is not just a national tragedy bringing grief and misgivings to the Soviet people, but it is also an extreme ecological phenomenon on the international scale.

“Somewhere in the sky a chalice of poison was spilled. It fell like black rain onto the smoking town.”

Sinoe Sioda a victim of radiation sickness.

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Chernousenko, V.M. (1991). Black Rain. In: Chernobyl. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76453-0_1

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