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In 1986, reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded. The radiation level was 400 times higher than that caused by the Hiroshima nuclear bomb. The Soviet Union sent a total of over 600,000 men to liquidate the disaster, 4,800 of them from Estonia. Currently, the Estonian state supports Chernobyl veterans with 230 euros per year.