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|February 27, 2021
Ben Fogle visits the site of the world’s most infamous nuclear disaster in Ukraine…
On the evening of 26 April 1986, a reactor at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded and sent clouds of radioactive material into the air, in history’s worst-ever nuclear disaster.
The area is still uninhabitable almost 35 years on, yet in this special film Ben Fogle spends a week inside Chernobyl’s vast exclusion zone and even visits the burnt remains of Reactor No.4.
This story is from the February 27, 2021 edition of What's on TV.
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