The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 209, Issues 4-6National Geographic Society., 2006 - Geography |
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Before dawn on April 26 , 1986 , less than two miles south of what was then a city of 50,000 , the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's number four reactor exploded . Thirty people died in the blast and fire or were exposed to lethal ...
Before dawn on April 26 , 1986 , less than two miles south of what was then a city of 50,000 , the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's number four reactor exploded . Thirty people died in the blast and fire or were exposed to lethal ...
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Four days later , a the instrument boards are intact . Five years ago , physicist from a technical center in the old town the room was doused with a pink decontaminaof Chernobyl , ten miles away , dashed in to pour tion solution .
Four days later , a the instrument boards are intact . Five years ago , physicist from a technical center in the old town the room was doused with a pink decontaminaof Chernobyl , ten miles away , dashed in to pour tion solution .
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The two nations had last clashed four years earlier , not on a soccer field but in the Falklands War , which Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges later compared to “ a fight between two bald men over a comb .
The two nations had last clashed four years earlier , not on a soccer field but in the Falklands War , which Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges later compared to “ a fight between two bald men over a comb .
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Inside Chernobyl 32 Twenty years after a nuclear reactor exploded blanketing | 36 |
Nuclear Power 54 Its controversial Its expensive And it just might save the Earth | 56 |
Glen Canyon Revealed 64 A sustained drought has shriveled Lake Powell in the Southwest | 72 |
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