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The disaster at Chernobyl made the nuclear industry look risky and expensive, and gave a boost to anti-nuclear movements around the world. Watch a clip from Vladimir Shevchenko's Chernobyl: A Chronicle of Difficult Weeks, exploring the aftermath of the disaster in the video below:
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