AP Was There: Early Chernobyl victims buried in Moscow cemetery
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April 26, 2026
In the weeks after the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it was difficult to get any information about the scope of the disaster, aside from terse announcements from the government of the Soviet Union
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