In Pics: 35 Years Since The World’s Worst Nuclear Disaster at Chernobyl

A central square in the deserted town of Pripyat, some 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant Ukraine in this photo from 2017. Once home to some 50,000 people whose lives were connected to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Pripyat was hastily evacuated one day after a reactor at the plant 3 kilometers (2 miles) away exploded on April 26, 1986. The explosion and the subsequent fire spewed a radioactive plume over much of northern Europe.  (Image: AP file)

A room in a dilapidated building, part of a school in the deserted town of Pripyat, some 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant Ukraine.  (Image: AP file)

A new shelter is installed over the exploded reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine. (Image: AP file)

A decrepit piano stands in a school in the deserted town of Pripyat. (Image: AP file)

A bulletin board with pictures of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin hangs on a wall in a school in the deserted town of Pripyat. (Image: AP file)

Small trees grow on a balcony in the deserted town of Pripyat, some 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant Ukraine.  (Image: AP file)

A broken clock hangs on a wall in a school in the deserted town of Pripyat.  ( (Image: AP file)

An edition of the newspaper Sovetsky Patriot, dated three days before the nuclear explosion, is attached to a bulletin board in a house of culture in the deserted town of Pripyat. (Image: AP file)

A radioactivity sign stands in the ground, outside Chernobyl, Ukraine. (Image: AP file)

A gymnasium in a school in the deserted town of Pripyat, some 3 kilometers (1.86 miles) from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant Ukraine.  (Image: AP file)

In this photo taken on April 5, 2017, journalists take a selfie in front of the monument of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in Chernobyl, Ukraine. (Image: AP file)