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There has been anuclear accident in the Soviet Union and The Soviets haveadmitted that it happened. The Soviet version is this: One of the atomic reactors at the Chernobyl Atomic PowerPlant near the city of Kiev was damaged, and there isspeculation in Moscow that people were injuredand may have died. The Soviets may have been fairlyquick to acknowledge the accident because evidence in the formof mild nuclear radiation had already reached beyond theSoviet borders to Scandinavia
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There has been a nuclear accident in the Soviet Union
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and the Soviets have admitted that it happened
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The Soviet version is this
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One of the atomic reactors
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at the Chernobyl Atomic Power Plant near the city of Kiev
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was damaged and there is speculation in Moscow
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that people were injured and may have died
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The Soviets may have been fairly quick to acknowledge the accident
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because evidence in the form of mild nuclear radiation
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had already reached beyond the Soviet borders to Scandinavia
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Movie Summary
In April 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics becomes one of the world's worst man-made catastrophes.
