Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, an abandoned town next to Chernobyl. Pripyat was evacuated right after the 1986 disaster at the nuclear power plant. The city is a complete ghost town.

Business Insider recently traveled to Pripyat, an abandoned town next to Chernobyl. Pripyat was evacuated right after the 1986 disaster at the nuclear power plant. The city is a complete ghost town.

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But Chernobyl was on a whole other scale of disaster, for the denial of the risks, the sheer amount of radiation released, damage to the surrounding environment and how authorities responded.