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The Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant uses the same nuclear reactor type that was involved in the Chernobyl incident, and is located 70 kilometers to the west of St. Petersburg (named Leningrad during Soviet times). Apart from being a major population and cultural center of the USSR, Leningrad also was home to major shipyards, port facilities, and machinery plants (including one of the world's largest turbine factories). What happens to the USSR economically and politically if the Chernobyl disaster occurred at Leningrad Nuclear Power Plant instead of Chernobyl, and what happens to Leningrad?
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