Exactly 30 years ago, there was an explosion in the Ukrainian countryside north of Kiev. In the nearby town of Pripyat, about 49,000 people slept. They lived here, in the thick forest on the Belarusian border, because they had been lured by jobs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Most people believed that working and living near a nuclear reactor was safe. Soviet officials had assured them that nothing could go wrong at Chernobyl. It was all a simple matter of smashing atoms and boiling water.
We now know otherwise. In the 30 years since the meltdown of Reactor No. 4, …read more
Source: Newsweek
