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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Guy Henderson & Laura Sharman

Abandoned 'Chernobyl-on-Sea' in UK that's still a derelict eyesore after 12 years

Britain's "Chernobyl-on-Sea" is still abandoned after more than a decade, with skeleton buildings decaying at the old gasworks.

Ugly hoardings surround the derelict building site which is just a stone's throw away from some of the best beaches in the UK.

The area was once likened to the nuclear ghost city of Ukraine which was exposed to radiation after a reactor was destroyed in a devastating Soviet nuclear disaster in 1986.

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