
This photo taken Wednesday, March 23, 2016 shows abandoned apartment buildings in the town of Pripyat near Chernobyl, Ukraine, with a chimney, left, at the destroyed reactor and a gigantic arch-shape confinement to cover the remnants of the exploded reactor, in the back, at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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Thirty years after the world’s worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is surrounded by both a hushed desolation and clangorous activity, the sense of a ruined past and a difficult future.

This photo shows a storage of the nuclear waste taken from the 4th unit damaged by the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

In this photo, a laboratory worker checks the radiation level on samples taken from the 4th unit destroyed by the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

In this photo, workers build an arch-shape confinement that will be installed over the sarcophagus and reactor building damaged by the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

In this photo, workers build an arch-shape confinement that will be moved on rails over the sarcophagus and reactor building damaged by the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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In this photo, a worker passes by a storage facility under construction for nuclear waste at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

In this photo, constructors work close to the old sarcophagus, in the background, at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

In this photo, workers build an arch-shape confinement that will be moved on rails over the sarcophagus and reactor building damaged by the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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This photo shows the old sarcophagus, right, over the reactor building damaged by the explosion and a new confinement, left, under construction at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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This photo shows a monument to workers of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, who died in the 1986 catastrophe, at the entrance to the plant.