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Soviet television showed, on April 30, 1986, this picture of the Chernobyl plant on which a half-destroyed building could be seen, but commentary said there had been "no destruction, nor gigentic fires nor thousands of casualties". / AFP / - (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)

Soviet television showed, on April 30, 1986, this picture of the Chernobyl plant on which a half-destroyed building could be seen, but commentary said there had been "no destruction, nor gigentic fires nor thousands of casualties". / AFP / -        (Photo credit should read -/AFP/Getty Images)