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Forty years on from nuclear disaster

BBC Inside Science by BBC

Apr 16, 202626:29Religion & Spirituality

For 40 years scientists have been fascinated by the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. Professor Jim Smith from the University of Portsmouth is one of those scientists, a frequent vi...

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Forty years on from nuclear disaster is an episode from BBC Inside Science by BBC. For 40 years scientists have been fascinated by the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. Professor Jim Smith from the Uni...

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Published Apr 16, 2026, 26:29 long, audio available.