Thirty years on from the disaster that doomed the
Soviet Union, the Kremlin still believes in cover-ups and intimidation
Exactly 30 years ago today Pravda, the official Communist party
newspaper, published its first substantial report on the nuclear explosion at
Chernobyl, ten days after the worst man-made accident in history. This was the
first formal indication that anything was seriously amiss.
In the days after the explosion at the nuclear power plant in northern
Ukraine, 120,000 people were evacuated from a 22-mile exclusion zone, as
frantic efforts were made to drain the plant of radioactive water and encase
the site in concrete. More than 200 people died from acute radiation sickness,
and thousands more would suffer the debilitating...
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