Parts of Ukraine and Belarus became heavily contaminated with radioactive fallout during the 1986 meltdown of a nuclear power plant in the city of  _________. Odessa Chelyabinsk Kharkiv Kiev Chernobyl

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Parts of Ukraine and Belarus became heavily contaminated with radioactive fallout during the 1986 meltdown of a nuclear power plant in the city of  _________.
Odessa
Chelyabinsk
Kharkiv
Kiev
Chernobyl
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Although the nuclear power plant meltdown officially occurred in Ukraine, radioactive pollution knows no political boundaries, notably along the boundary of Belarus, which is just around 6 miles from the disaster location. Large areas of Belarus were severely affected, and within 2 years of the incident, the Belarusian authorities had recognized some of the most dangerous locations as being nearest to the plant and near the border of Ukraine.

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