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Russians leave Chernobyl site as fighting moves

Ukrainian soldiers walk next to destroyed Russian tanks in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Russian forces shelled Kyiv suburbs, two days after the Kremlin announced it would significantly scale back operations near both the capital and the northern city of Chernihiv to “increase mutual trust and create conditions for further negotiations.” (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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An operator's arm-chair covered with plastic sits in an empty control room of the 3rd reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on April 20, 2018. Russia’s attack on a nuclear power plant in Ukraine has revived the fears of people across Europe who remember the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Chernobyl showing increased levels of radiation, Ukraine …

Officials believe increased radiation at the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster may be caused by increased military activity and vehicles “stirring up soil still contaminated from the 1986 incident." (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Concerns mount after Russian troops seize control of Chernobyl …

A Soviet-era top secret object Duga, an over-the-horizon radar system once used as part of the Soviet missile defense early-warning radar network, seen behind a radioactivity sign in Chernobyl, Ukraine, on Nov. 22, 2018. Among the most worrying developments on an already shocking day, as Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday, was warfare at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, where radioactivity is still leaking from history's worst nuclear disaster 36 years ago. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky, File)

Russia seizes control of Chernobyl nuclear site from Ukraine

A man walks past a shelter covering the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, Thursday, April 15, 2021. The vast and empty Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident is a baleful monument to human mistakes. Yet 35 years after a power plant reactor exploded, Ukrainians also look to it for inspiration, solace and income. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Chernobyl’s Nuclear Reactor 4 Control Room Opens to Tourists

Tourists take pictures at Chernobyl's New Safe Confinement covering the 4th block of Chernobyl Nuclear power plant during their tour to the Chernobyl exclusion zone on April 23, 2018.(Credit: SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images)

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Chernobyl Becomes Visitor Hotspot in Wake of Popular …

Visitors wait in line to buy snacks and souvenirs at a souvenir shop next to the Dytyatky checkpoint after a tour in the Chernobyl exclusion zone on June 7, 2019. (Credit: GENYA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images)