silence emptiness: The sound comes suddenly, piercing through the silence and emptiness of the surroundings, according to The Independent. In the quiet square it's a reminder that this city in northern Ukraine is very much alive -- an important declaration for a place many of whose citizens came perilously close to perishing in the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever experienced. Every hour it plays the anthem of the city. Slavutych owes its existence to the Chernobyl explosion of April 26, 1986, and it's one of the last major feats of social and physical engineering carried out by the Soviet Union. Slavutych was constructed from scratch in just two years. In the aftermath of the reactor explosion, 45,000 people were evacuated as their nearby hometown Pripyat -- once an oasis of greenery and a model of Soviet prosperity -- became a radiation-contaminated ghost town.
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