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A man grieves at the monument to Chernobyl victims in Slavutich, some 30 miles away from the accident site, and where many of the power station's personnel used to live, during a memorial ceremony early on April 26, 2011.

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A boy points to his grandmother's portrait in the Chernobyl victims' monument in Slavutich, some 30 miles away from the accident's site, and where many of the power station's personnel used to live, during a memorial ceremony on the night on Monday, April 25, 2011.
The world’s worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl took place 25 years ago when a blast at the power plant spewed a cloud of radioactive fallout over much of Europe and forced hundreds of thousands from their homes in Ukraine, Belarus and western Russia. Today, a 19-mile exclusion zone around the plant remains in place because of contamination from the plant. See more images from Chernobyl here.
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I think Europe is on the right track.....leading away from nuclear power. Clearly, no nuclear reactor can ever be safe from acts of terroism, earthquakes, volcanos, tidal waves. I think those who would ramp up new reactors after Fukushima are full of themselves and a terrible hubris. We must recognizer the Earth as a singular living jewel beyond any price. We cannot, we must not, risk the horrors that could burst upon the world via nuclear meltdown for any reason. We can go a higher route...use less, recycle more, and make our wants and our needs the same. When enough is enough, there will always be enough. Let us turn 360 degrees from needless goods and services that have nothing to do with the moral, spiritual and physical wellbeing of mankind. In the right pursuits of man, we need nuclear reactors like death itself.