Archive - The Effects of Radiation from Chernobyl. 1997-2000
Paul Fusco
In Chernobyl in 1986 a nuclear reactor exploded vomiting 160 tons of radioactive ash into the air that swept across the lands poisoning 25% of the population and 25% of the land and water of Belarus. Thirteen years after the explosive catastrophe the awful legacy can still be seen not only in the surviving immediate victims, but also in thousands more who were born with radiation caused deformities and diseases and forever more those who have dangerous buildup of radiation in their bodies from the food they eat and the water they drink everyday. It accumulates and festers and destroys lives in...
