National Geographic: Visitors gaze overhead at the steel lattice that will underpin the new protective shelter at Chernobyl, site of the worst nuclear accident in history. The so-called New Safe Confinement, designed to seal the destroyed reactor and contain the radioactive material inside, is the latest step in a more than 26-year cleanup at the desolate plant site in Ukraine. elated Quiz: "What Do You Know About Nuclear Power?") On April 26, 1986, an explosion in one of the plant's reactors spewed large amounts...
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