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Chernobyl: A disaster waiting to happen?
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CNN's Betsy Aaron explains the struggle to close down the Chernobyl site
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July 25, 1998
Web posted at: 11:08 p.m. EDT (2308 GMT)
CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR PLANT, Ukraine, (CNN) -- The hulking
remains of Chernobyl's reactor 4, encased in a concrete
sarcophagus, are a time bomb waiting to explode, experts say.
At least 31 people died and thousands were evacuated from
Chernobyl after the April 26, 1986, fires and explosions
resulting from an unauthorized experiment at the plant near
Kiev.
Yet right next to reactor 4 are men and women working in
reactor 3, which remains operational. The United States and
much of the West want the reactor closed.
Correspondent Betsy Aaron reports on the issues that still
surround the site of the accident that was the worst in the
history of the nuclear power industry.
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