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A photographer visited the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone more than 20 times over the past 25 years, and the captivating photos show just how suddenly time stopped in its tracks after the disaster
2:01pm PDT - April 30th, 2019 chernobyl - Business InsiderOn April 26, 1986, an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located in the then- Soviet Union, resulted in a cloud of radioactive particles spreading across parts of Europe. The accident has gone down in history as the world's worst nuclear disaster…