Chernobyl: 20 Years Later

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A doll and a gas mask, covered by radioactive dust, are seen in an abandoned kindergarten in the ghost town of Pripyat, Ukraine, on March 10, 2006. Pripyat, built a mile from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to house the plant's workers, was evacuated within hours of the April 26, 1986 explosion.

Author: CBS News Staff

Credit: AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky