New podcast follows one woman’s search for answers 40 years after the Chernobyl disaster

Assume Nothing: The Radiation Holiday is an eight-part podcast series which will be available on BBC Sounds from Saturday 4 ...

'I was a child victim of Chernobyl – "radiation holidays" changed my life'

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of the 40th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster, a new podcast examines what happened to ...
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Chernobyl guardians are passing radiation mutations on to their children

The story of Chernobyl has long carried a chilling epilogue: that the people who rushed in to contain the disaster doomed not only themselves, but their children, to hidden genetic damage. The ...
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The Accidental Trailblazers of a New Global Condition

On April 28, 1986, the Soviet news program Vremya made a 14-second announcement about an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant in Ukraine. One of the plant’s nuclear reactors had been damaged, ...
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Derbyshire charity branch closes after 20 years of helping children affected by Chernobyl disaster

A branch of a well-known charity, which provides relief to children in Ukraine and Belarus, is closing after over twenty years. Chris Broome started the Bonsall and Derbyshire Dales branch of ...