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Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant as seen by two different KH-9 HEXAGON spy satellite missions in 1972 and 1976. 1972: spacefromspace.com/declassified... 1976: spacefromspace.com/declassified...

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It is striking to see the plant at this stage. By 1983, a critical defect in the reactor bars was discovered at Ignalina, but no corrections were made before the 1986 disaster.