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Caption Description A helicopter moves in to help experts check the damage to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant reactor.
Photo courtesy of the Ukrainian Society for Friendship and Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.
[April 1986]

Unique Identifier UN7375147

NICA ID 470485

Production Date 04/01/1986 9:40:40 AM

Country Ukraine

Credit UN Photo/IAEA

File size 4.22 MB