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In the background, the structure built to seal the nuclear reactor that exploded in 1986, in Chernobyl, Ukraine, March 9, 2023. Not everyone evacuated when the Chernobyl nuclear plant melted down, and the few who stayed in the exclusion zone lived through another calamity when Russian troops marched in. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times/Fotoarena)
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