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25 years after Chernobyl nuclear disaster

(Agencies)
Updated: 2011-03-21 13:34

Workers from state radiation ecology reserve load reinforced concrete plate as they dismantle overpass near the 30 km (19 miles) exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor near the village of Babchin, some 370 km (217 miles) southeast of Minsk, March 17, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]

A roe deer stands in a forest in the state radiation ecology reserve in the 30 km (19 miles) exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor near the village of Babchin, some 370 km (230 miles) southeast of Minsk, March 18, 2011. Still inhospitable to humans, the Chernobyl "exclusion zone" -- a contaminated 30-km radius around the site of the nuclear reactor explosion of April 26, 1986 -- is now a nature reserve and teems with different wild animals. [Photo/Agencies]