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Chernobyl Disaster Remembered

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• File: This May 10, 2007 file photo shows a general view of empty houses in the town of Pripyat, Ukraine and the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the background.
• April 26: Women protest in Kiev against Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko's call to expand the country's nuclear power industry.
• April 26: The widows of Chernobyl victims hold portraits in Kiev, Ukraine of their husbands who died following the clean-up operations for the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion.
• April 26: A relative of a Chernobyl victim wipes tears away during the wreath laying ceremony at Chernobyl's victims monument in Ukraine's capital Kiev.
• April 26: Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, second right, speaker of parliament Arseniy Yatsenyuk, center, and other Ukrainian officials, hold candles near the memorial monument of Chernobyl victims in Kiev, Ukraine.
• File: In this Nov. 30, 2006 file photo, workers and guests gather around a new memorial to workers who defended the population against nuclear danger at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine.
• April 26: An artist is seen is painting an icon representing a rescuer of the Chernobyl accident on the outer wall of a church near a monument to victims of the Chernobyl explosion in Ukraine's capital Kiev.