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Chernobyl - Ukraine's new tourist destination

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The Ukrainian government has opened Chernobyl to visitors for the first time since the explosion at the nuclear power plant 25 years ago.

Radiation spread across Europe and western Russia and to this day, it is still the world's deadliest nuclear accident, as Carmen Roberts report.

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