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The Chernobyl disaster took place on 26th April 1986, at the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant in the Ukraine, when a nuclear explosion took place in Reactor Number 4 of the plant. In the 1995 UN Report on the disaster it was estimated that 9 million people in the three countries of Belarus, Western Russia and the Ukraine were affected, 3-4 million of whom were children. The same report stated that an area the size of England, Wales and Northern Ireland combined has been contaminated.

Over 70% of the radiation released fell on the people of neighbouring Belarus who were exposed to radiation 90 times greater than the radiation released by the Hiroshima Bomb.