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Why? Emergency crews aren't able to respond fast enough, causing the other parts of the reactor to collapse that didn't in OTL, spilling out radiation over Eastern Europe, more of Russia, and who knows where else.

Now why this happens, I don't know, that's for elsewhere. Rather, this is here to ask this. How bad could Cherynobl have truly gone in casualties, and permanent damage to things like agriculture? How would this impact international relations? Would this possibly cause worldwide starvation through its impacts on the breadbasket of Europe?

I ask all of this because it's the closet the world got to fully realizing the horrors of the nuclear age in a way.
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