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After the April 26, 1986 accident at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station (8)

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Galsjo Forest elk hunters fill a quarry in Northern Sweden Friday, September 18, 1986 with carcasses contaminated with radioactivity caused by the Chernobyl Nuclear disaster five months ago. The elks were stripped of their fur before being buried. (AP Photo/Stefan Sundqvist).

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Two unidentified demonstrators hold their protest banner on a heap of hay dumped outside Government Headquarters Thursday, June 5, 1986. They are protesting a lack of action to cope with radioactive polution in Sweden from the Soviet Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. The banner reads

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At a state farm in the Ukraine near Klev, visiting reporters and photographers on a trip organized by Soviet officials were shown how Soviet medical technicians are checking Chernobyl accident evacuees for radiation levels, May 9, 1986. (AP Photo / Boris Kurchenko).

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A worker wearing a protective overall and mask is seen amid boxes full with contaminated vegetables on the landfill in Berlin-Wannsee on May 9, 1986. Vegetables with low radiation are being stored at this landfill following a decision of the local authorities in Berlin which bans the sale of contaminated leafy vegetables due to the recent nuclear accident in Chernobyl, Soviet Union. (AP Photo/Rainer Klostermeier/str)[

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A Soviet technician checks water taken from a stream near Kiev for radiation on May 9, 1986. Checks are being performed hourly to be certain water supplies are safe to use in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear plant accident that occurred on Friday. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko/pool)

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PHOTO: EAST NEWS/LASKI DIFFUSION Elektrownia atomowa w Czarnobylu po katastrofie, maj 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the disaster, may 1986

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PHOTO: EAST NEWS/LASKI DIFFUSION Elektrownia atomowa w Czarnobylu po katastrofie, maj 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant after the disaster, may 1986

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Workers in a reactor room of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant go about their duties in this 1982 photo. The Soviet agency TASS reported Monday April 28, 1986, that one of the plant's nuclear reactors was damaged in a nuclear accident. (AP Photo)

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