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Ukraine seeks World Heritage status for Chernobyl zone

Ukraine seeks World Heritage status for Chernobyl zone

Authorities say giving the zone special status would be a big boost at a site which currently boasts this lone souvenir stall.

CHERNOBYL: A soft snow fell as a clutch of visitors equipped with a Geiger counter wandered through the ghostly Ukrainian town of Pripyat, frozen in time since the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986.

More than three decades after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster forced thousands to evacuate, there is an influx of visitors to the area that has spurred officials to seek official status from…

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