No more Chernobyls Time heals everything, doesn't it? It has
been 25 years since the name Chernobyl became the infamous
nuclear accident that devastated the lives of millions of people
in Western Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. 25 years on, and the
nightmare for thousands of people is still frightening. View of
the destroyed no. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power
station. Following the explosion the fire and radiation leaks
was not brought under control till 9 days after the accident.
The Chernobyl catastrophe released one hundred times more
radiation than the atom bombs dropped over Hiroshima and
Nagasaki. Yet many seem to just dismiss the accident as a part
of history and forget what large doses of radiation actually do
to human lives. Sadly, focussing solely on the disputed
statistics of Chernobyl has dehumanised what happened. The
effects of Chernobyl touched millions of people and thousand
still endure very visible and painful effects. We are telling
the stories of just a few of those thousands, t