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Center for Slavic and East European Studies at OSU
Twenty-Five Years After
ChernobylApril 2011
ChernobylCenter for Slavic and East European Studies at OSU
April 26, 1986Pripyat, Ukraine
400 times more radioactive material than the Hiroshima atomic bomb was released
No immediate evacuation was ordered – didn’t acknowledge until two days later!
Affected Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Europe
ChernobylCenter for Slavic and East European Studies at OSU
What happened 25 years ago at Chernobyl?
Why is Chernobyl important today?
What can we learn from this tragedy?
Photos by R. Payne-Holmes, Wikipedia and Fox.