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In 1986, more than 110,000 people living in a neighborhood of about 30 kilometers around the plant had to be evacuated.
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Between 1986 and 1990, around 600,000 soviets dubbed “liquidators” will be dispatched to the site, to build the concrete layer and decontaminated the area
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at the nuclear power plant, located in northern Ukraine.18 km from the city of Chernobyl, there was a nuclear accident, Considered the worst nuclear accident.
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the first alert published was not given until April 28, by Sweden, which detected a rise in radioactivity in its territory
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the installation of a 50 meter high concrete “sarcophagus”
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reactor number 2 is out of service after a fire.
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Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma agrees to close Chernobyl before the year 2000.
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the sarcophagus threatens to sink, work begins to reinforce it.
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the last operation reactor is deactivated.
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September on 2006 the NGO estimates the number of deaths caused by the catastrophe at 100,000.
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the works, begin on a new 180 meter high watertight layer.
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The gigantic 36,000 tonne steel arch is installed above the old sarcophagus.