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Fifty years ago, the Soviet Union inaugurated the town of Pripyat, built to house workers of the Chernobyl power plant. One nuclear engineer, Oleksiy Breus, told RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service about his memories of Pripyat — and of the historic disaster that he witnessed.
Originally published at – https://www.rferl.org/a/chernobyl-pripyat-ghost-town/30417013.html