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Chernobyl

On 26 April 1986, the Chernobyl Disaster occured, releasing immense quantities of radioactive material for days before it could be contained. It is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history: the contamination spread across the former USSR territories and reached even Western Europe. The radiation resulted in lasting pollution of the areas and had a massive impact on the health of people. We investigated this event and wrote blog posts sharing how the memory of this event is contested and remembered: We reveal personal experiences of liquidators, look at today’s perception of the accident in Ukraine and Belarus and set up a Tweetology-Timeline of the nuclear catastrophe and its aftermath.