When the Chornobyl reactor exploded and radioactive dust filled the night sky, Viktoriia Babak was only 16. She was living in Pripyat, the city housing employees at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), and her class at school was supposed to graduate. But on April 26, 1986, all plans were destroyed a month before the end of the school year. JOIN US ON TELEGRAM Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official . The nuclear disaster put an end to her schooling, her youth in Pripyat,