Forty years on, Chernobyl’s shadow still shapes families’ lives
TL;DR
Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, residents evacuated from Pripyat and surrounding areas recount losing their homes, livelihoods and loved ones, the long-lasting health and environmental toll, and a pervasive fear as new conflicts threaten nuclear sites and raise fears of a repeat catastrophe.
- ‘We are hostages of Chernobyl’: 40 years on, families reel from nuclear disaster The Independent
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