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View of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s fourth reactor.

View of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s fourth reactor in this May 1986 file photo. Engineers at Chernobyl nuclear power station shut down its last working reactor a day earlier than planned Thursday, in an impromptu attempt to impress visiting Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. But officials said the plant, site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986, would be restarted, so as not to spoil a televised button-pushing ceremony planned for Friday when the power station is finally put to rest. Chernobyl’s Number Four reactor caught fire and exploded in April 1986, sending a radioactive cloud of dust over Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and other parts of Europe.(B&W ONLY) REUTERS/Vladimir Repik VR/VB – RTRHD1P