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The world's worst nuclear disaster happened at 1. 23am on April 26, 1986.
Reactor number four at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station in Ukraine blew up.
Sent a massive amount of radioactive material into the sky and into the surrounding area.
That's what we're getting into on this episode of The World, the Universe and Us.
I'm Rowan Hooper.
We 're exploring the legacy of Chernobyl, what we 've learned from it about radiation,
ecology and human behaviour, and in particular maybe how it skewed the public understanding of nuclear power.
We're also going to be drinking atomic brandy.
Made from radioactive apples grown in the, not the exclusion zone, it's the what zone?
We call it the second zone, or the zone of obligatory resettlement,
which was supposed to be abandoned but was n't fully abandoned.