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Chernobyl disaster still being felt
April 26: Twenty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the world's worst nuclear accident, the horrendous fallout is still being felt. NBC's Preston Mendenhall reports.

Chernobyl kindergarten frozen in time

Preventing further leaks

Life in the Chernobyl zone

Surviving against the odds

Photographing Chernobyl

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The disaster

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The fallout
Click to see images from the months and years immediately following the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.

Slide show

Inside the Black Zones of Belarus
Click to see images from the areas contaminated by Chernobyl's radioactive fallout.

updated 9:21 a.m. ET April 25, 2006

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