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. Chernobyl

Robert talks to the Washington Post's Jim Rupert, who is in Kiev, about the fires near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The plant is the site of the world's worst nuclear accident that occured 10 years ago. Officials fear the fires may carry radioactive particles into the air that could be spread beyond the 18-mile exclusion zone around the plant.

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