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Ukraine marks Chernobyl anniversary

April 27, 2011 00:00:00


CHERNOBYL, Apr 26: Ukraine marked the 25th anniversary on Tuesday of the world's worst nuclear accident at its Chernobyl power plant as Japan pressed on with efforts to control the crisis at its Fukushima plant. On April 26 1986, the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl plant, then in the Soviet Union, exploded and caught fire after a safety test experiment went badly wrong. -Reuters

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