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Inside Chernobyl's nuclear ghost town
  • A Ferris Wheel is seen in the abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine March 28, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • A view of the abandoned city of Pripyat is seen near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine March 28, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • A vintage doll, which was placed by a visitor, is seen on a bed at a kindergarten near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine April 5, 2017. Picture taken April 5, 2017. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • Vintage dolls, which were placed by a visitor, are seen on beds at a kindergarten near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine April 5, 2017. Picture taken April 5, 2017. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • Vintage toys are seen at a kindergarten near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine April 5, 2017. Picture taken April 5, 2017. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • Vintage toys are seen at a kindergarten near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine April 5, 2017. Picture taken April 5, 2017. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • A New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is seen from Ukraine's abandoned town of Pripyat, Ukraine, April 5, 2017. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • A New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is seen from Ukraine's abandoned town of Pripyat, Ukraine, April 5, 2017. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • Moss is seen growing on a child's slipper in the ghost town of Pripyat which was evacuated after an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukraine April 18, 2016. For residents of Chernobyl, a three-day evacuation turned into a thirty-year exile. Returning to their hometown of Pripyat on the eve of the anniversary, they recall their confusion and sacrifice in the wake of the world's worst nuclear accident. In the morning of April 26, 1986, one couldn't immediately tell that a meltdown in reactor 4 of the nuclear plant in then-Soviet Ukraine was poisoning the air with deadly radioactive particles. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich SEARCH "RETURN PRIPYAT" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES
  • A view of the abandoned city of Pripyat is seen near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine April 22, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • A containment shelter for the damaged fourth reactor (L) and the New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure (R) at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant are seen from Ukraine's abandoned town of Pripyat, Ukraine, April 22, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
  • A view of the abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine April 22, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • A view of an amusement park in the centre of the abandoned town of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine March 28, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • A view of the abandoned city of Pripyat is seen near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine March 28, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • A dog is seen in the abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine March 28, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • A ferris wheel is seen in the abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine March 28, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • A shoe for children is left in a kindergarten in the abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine March 28, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • A view of the abandoned city of Pripyat near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine March 23, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • A view of the abandoned city of Pripyat is seen near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine March 23, 2016. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • The coat of arms of the former Soviet Union is seen on the roof of a house in the abandoned city of Pripyat near Chernobyl nuclear power plant April 23, 2013. Ukraine will mark the 27th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the world's worst civil nuclear accident, on April 26. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich (UKRAINE - Tags: DISASTER ENERGY ANNIVERSARY)
  • A clock is seen on a wall at a swimming pool in Ukraine's ghost town of Pripyat, which was evacuated after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, April 13, 2006. Ukraine prepares to mark the 20th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster, when a reactor at the Chernobyl plant exploded, spreading a radioactive cloud across Europe and the Soviet Union. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich
  • A picture of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin is seen through wild flowers inside a hospital in the abandoned town of Pripyat, in the 30 km (19 miles) exclusion zone around the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant March 31, 2006. [Around 50,000 Pripyat residents were evacuated after the disaster, taking only few belongings. Ukraine is preparing to mark the 20th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster, when a reactor at the Chernobyl plant exploded, spreading radioactivity across Europe and the Soviet Union. ]
  • Medical equipment lies idle in front of a hospital in the abandoned town of Pripyat, in the 30 km (19 miles) exclusion zone around the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant March 31, 2006. [Around 50,000 Pripyat residents were evacuated after the disaster, taking only few belongings. Ukraine is preparing to mark the 20th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster, when a reactor at the Chernobyl plant exploded, spreading radioactivity across Europe and the Soviet Union.]
  • A view of an amusement park in the centre of the abandoned town of Pripyat, in the 30 km (19 miles) exclusion zone around the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant March 31, 2006. Around 50,000 Pripyat residents were evacuated after the disaster, taking only few belongings. Ukraine is preparing to mark the 20th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster, when a reactor at the Chernobyl plant exploded, spreading radioactivity across Europe and the Soviet Union. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj

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