# @cgtneurope on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DXmfFl1AHfp
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/64685292-cgtneurope-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-04-26T16:20:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CGTN Europe (@cgtneurope) — https://gondola.cc/cgtneurope

## Caption

At 01:23 on April 26, 1986, a human error during a safety test triggered a blast in reactor number four at the Chornobyl nuclear plant in northern Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.⁣
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The explosion tore the inside of the building apart, sending a plume of radioactive smoke into the atmosphere, with nuclear fuel burning for more than 10 days. It became the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history.⁣
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The area was evacuated and became an exclusion zone. The city of Pripyat, 3km from the plant with a population of 48,000 residents in 1986, was completely evacuated.⁣
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It remains abandoned, with its empty decaying buildings -- including a rusting amusement park and ferris wheel -- resembling a post-apocalyptic ghost town.⁣
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#chornobyl #nuclear

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