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Chernobyl: A Radioactive Tourist
Derry's Cross
Plymouth
Devon
PL1 2SW
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Join us for a compelling perspective on the legacy of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster as photographer Andrew Knight talks us through his pictorial journey as a Radioactive Tourist in the Ukraine.
The Chernobyl nuclear accident took place on 26 April 1986 and has been labelled the world's worst civil nuclear incident.
Alongside the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, it is one of only two nuclear energy accidents rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the international nuclear event scale.
The accident occurred in the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of what was then the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.
The disaster response, together with later decontamination efforts, involved more than half a million people with costs estimated in excess of $70 billion in today's terms.
Cornwall-based Andrew is a retired police detective with a love of photography and is a licentiate of the Royal Photographic Society.
This talk is being supported by the Plymouth Athenaeum's Photographic Group.
Entry is free.
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