Chernobyl News

Chernobyl 20 Years On
Meet the helicopter pilot who spent months flying through radioactive dust; the engineer who saw the first three men die; the family evacuated with 40 minutes’ notice…
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Chernobyl FAST FACTS
- Occurred April 26, 1986 in Reactor #4 in Northern Ukraine, former Soviet Union.
- The World’s worst nuclear energy disaster ever recorded.
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Chernobyl’s Generations of Suffering
It is 20 years this week since the world’s worst nuclear accident shot huge amounts of radiation into the Ukraine sky. Now hospital wards there, in Belarus and in Russia are filled with sick youngsters who are the latest, but not the last, casualties of the disaster.
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