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- William E. Colby award has been won by Adam Higginbotham for his book ” Midnight in Chernobyl:The untold story of the World’s greatest nuclear disaster”.
- Chernobyl disaster took place on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR. Chernobyl.
- The United Nations (UN) has proclaimed April 26 International Chernobyl Disaster Remembrance Day. The day was first observed in 2016,