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Chernobyl's radioactive cloud halted at French border forty years ago

On April 26, 1986, a nuclear explosion at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union releases a radioactive cloud that travels across Europe.

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The cloud stops at the French border according to meteorological data, a rare climatic phenomenon documented at the time.

This event remains a major milestone in the history of global nuclear safety and transboundary radioactivity.

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