5. Chernobyl, Ukraine
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The Chernobyl Power Complex, lies about 130 km north of Kiev, Ukraine, and about 20 km south of the border with Belarus.
The Chernobyl accident happened in 1986. It is a total disaster.
The resulting steam explosion and fires released at least 5% of the radioactive reactor core into the atmosphere and downwind.
In 1989, the World Health Organization (WHO) first raised concerns that local medical scientists had incorrectly attributed various biological and health effects to radiation exposure.
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