The game is set in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone.

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An explosion in the middle of the night at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine tore off the plant's roof and sent radiation over much of Europe.

NPR: Ukraine Remembers Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster

Russian nuclear disaster experts from Rosenergoatom and the Nuclear Safety Institute who gained their experience from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant meltdown in 1986 Ukraine will also be going to Japan, Ria Novosti reported.

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