Originally published in the Guardian on 30 April 1986: After three days of virtual news blackout, the Soviet authorities finally admitted last night what Scandinavia had already deduced from radioactive fallout – that the Chernobyl nuclear accident is a "disaster," that some people have been killed and many thousands more evacuated
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