Forgetting Chernobyl
To commemorate ten years since the Chernobyl nuclear plant core reactor meltdown and radiation release in the Ukraine, Living on Earth sent producer Bruce Gellerman to the site of the world’s most serious nuclear plant disaster. Narrator Gellerman describes the terrain and the fears he enounters as he visits the entombed sarcophagus of the reactor, as well as with school children, hospitals, people who’ve returned to live out their days in their highly radioactive homes, with alternative energy advocates, and with a Chernobyl disaster museum curator ? whose displays of remembering are rarely visited these days.
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