Dmitry Medvedev is first Kremlin leader in 20 years to visit Chernobyl

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Source: Telegraph

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Dmitry Medvedev became the first Kremlin leader to visit the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in more than two decades on Tuesday, issuing a call for new tougher global rules on nuclear safety.

"It is of vital importance that we understand what kind of force humankind is dealing with," he warned.

In a visit timed to coincide with the twenty fifth anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster, Mr Medvedev joined Viktor Yanukovych, Ukraine's president, in a series of poignant memorial ceremonies for the dozens of people who died in the immediate aftermath of the tragedy.

The accident, on 26 April 1986, occurred after a test went badly wrong, and the plant's fourth reactor blew up sending a deadly plume of radiation into the air. "Millions of people were irradiated," Mr Medvedev said, "and hundreds of thousands lost their health, their blood, and their land."

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