o go to the hospital. Within a few days, people who lived 18.5 miles or closer were evacuated. The power of the explosion and fire carried most of the radioactivity away from the site, where it then spread across the Northern Hemisphere. The heaviest fallout descended on the western Soviet Union and parts of Europe.
             Belarus was affected the most by the Chernobyl Accident. About 70 percent of all released substances from Chernobyl landed on its ground. More then 1.8 million people are sill living in heavy polluted areas. Less areas in Ukraine and Russia were heavily contaminated than in Belarus. However, agriculture still goes on in heavily polluted regions.
             Shortly after this horrible accident, it became apparent that the USSR had intentionally concealed vital information for several reasons. They did so in order to prevent panic and opposition by downplaying the consequences to their own
             population, to protect those in charge by hiding the truth, and to protect the nuclear industry. Some of the information concealed by
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