HARI SREENIVASAN: Now, 30 years on from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the fallout from that fateful day still haunts Europe as a somber anniversary is marked.
(BELL TOLLING)
HARI SREENIVASAN: Bells tolled 30 times in Kiev, once for each year since the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
The president of Ukraine spoke at Chernobyl itself.
PRESIDENT PETRO POROSHENKO, Ukraine (through interpreter): The Chernobyl accident will for a long time remain an event of a worldwide scale that is a challenge to the whole of humanity. Such catastrophes do not respect state borders.
HARI SREENIVASAN: The city of Pripyat, where the nuclear plant was located, is now …read more
Source: PBS
