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outbreak in
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Comparison of Chernobyl and other radioactivity releases
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State Agency of Ukraine on the Exclusion Zone Management
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662:List of Chernobyl-related articles
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848:In Focus: Chernobyl
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2013:Chernobyl necklace
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1663:Vassili Nesterenko
1535:Chernobyl disaster
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