Chernobyl legacy 30 years after disaster

Thirty years ago today, an explosion ripped through reactor Number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine. Two workers were killed in the blast and countless more died from radiation exposure since then. The city’s some 135,000 inhabitants were evacuated and a 19-mile exclusion zone was set up around the plant a few days later. The disaster’s legacy still lives on…