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Chernobyl humidifer and diffuser

Rob Beschizza
Nov 24, 2025
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The April 1986 explosion at Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Pripyat, Ukraine, killed dozens of people quickly, many more slowly, forced 68,000 people to evacuate, and became the most expensive disaster in history. 14m exabecquerels of radioactive material were released to the atmosphere, poisoning Europe and beyond with radionuclides such as Iodine-131…

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