26 April 2011

History for the day

On 26 April 1986, the Number Four reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor (in what was then the Soviet Union, now the Ukraine) exploded. 31 workers died immediately, and a radioactive cloud drifted downwind.
See the article in the April issue of Wired on the unexpected aftermath for the local animals, including this wolf:

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