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From the CBC archives: Fall out from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

Thirty years ago, an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine led to one of the world's worst radiation leaks. It affected food produce on the continent including a shipment of lettuce that reached Vancouver.

Produce destined for Vancouver impacted by radiation from the nuclear plant

The world's worst man-made nuclear disaster happened in Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)

Thirty years ago,an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plantin the Ukraine led to one of the world's worstradiation leaks.

The fall out fromthe leak on April 26, 1986, was felt across Europe andlinked to numerous cancer cases.

The disasteralsoaffected food produce on the continent, including a shipment of lettuce that reached Vancouver several weeks later.

Watch the original news footage from the CBC archives.

Rewind: Fall out from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Vancouver

8 years ago
Duration 2:10
30 years, an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine led to one of the world's worst radiation leaks