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There was a nuclear power plant in Chernobyl and the area around it was inhabited by residents. Reactor 4 had an accident and blew containing radium. The inhabitants had to run away because it had contained radium a, dangerously reactive element which can harm people with dire consequences, it was then recorded that for the next 20,000 years no-one can live there until it wears of .

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