Ukraine marks 25th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster
Posted Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:58:00 GMT by Laura Brown
25 years on, the world remembers history's worst nuclear disaster. Just after midnight on 26 April 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, just 60 miles north of the Ukrainian capital Kiev, exploded. Over 350,000 people were evacuated. It was, and remains, the world's worst nuclear disaster.
Ukraine marks 25th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster