Soviet television showed, on April 30, 1986, this picture of the Chernobyl plant on which a half-destroyed building could be seen.

A member of the Veterinary control service of Colmar, east of France, holds spinaches contaminated by the radioactive clouds of Chernobyl, on May 15, 1986,.

Picture taken in April 1990 in chernobyl of buildings abandoned because of the radioactive contamination produced by the Chernobyl nuclear plant No. 4 reactor’s blast.

Picture taken on a French TV screen showing a satellite view of the area around the Chernobyl nuclear plant after its No. 4 reactor’s blast.

A policeman checks the level of radioactivity on vehicles leaving the 30 km forbidden area around Chernobyl after the nuclear plant No. 4 reactor’s blast.

Undated picture sent by Soviet television of a man injured in the blast.

Cuban president Fidel Castro receives a group of Belarusian children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster at the Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, March 29, 1990.

Picture taken in April 1992 in a village in Gomel area abandoned because of the radioactive contamination produced by the Chernobyl nuclear plant blast.

View taken on June 30, 1988 of the Sarcophagus which covers the reactor number four of the Chernobyl nuclear plant which blew up at 1:23 am on April 26, 1986, spewing out a radioactive cloud.

Pope John Paul II touches heads of children who lived in the fall-out zone of the Ukrainian Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster on June 6, 1991 during a mass in Olsztyn.