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April 26, 2016

Ukraine Marks 30th Anniversary of Chernobyl, World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
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And Ukraine is holding commemorations today to mark the 30th anniversary
of the worst nuclear disaster in history. The meltdown at the Chernobyl
plant sent a cloud of radioactive fallout into Russia, Belarus and over
a large portion of Europe. A vast rural region became uninhabitable,
including the town of Pripyat, which remains abandoned. Lyudmila
Kamkina, a former Chernobyl employee, spoke at a memorial ceremony in
the Ukrainian capital Kiev.

Lyudmila Kamkina: "We did not think that this accident would change all
our lives and our lives would be divided into 'before the war' and
'after the war,' as we called it. It was silent nuclear war for us, for
those who lived there in Pripyat and who worked at the station."

We'll have more on Chernobyl later in the broadcast.  


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