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Chernobyl Radiation Exposure Reaches 8.4 Million

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Authorities allegedly covered up the health dangers and the causes of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Workers are performing dangerous tasks under and alongside the reactor to neutralize it.

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Sources · 7 independent

WBUR Boston

“the danger to health and the reasons why it happened were still being covered up by the authorities. People had long been reassured that the plant was safe.”

Radio Sputnik

“да, во время трагедии на Чернобыльской АЭ спасали, они потом всю жизнь...”

KQED FM

“the announcement was still not the whole truth the extent of the radiation released the danger to health and the reasons why it happened were still being covered up by the authorities.”

WBUR Boston

“He said it was quote, being covered up by the authorities. People had long been reassured that the plant was safe.”

WBUR Boston

“the nuclear expert Oleg Nemets had previously visited Chernobyl and said on a newsreel that he could, quote, completely declare that it is completely out of the question that a nuclear power plant could explode.”

KQED FM

“the danger to health and the reasons why it happened were still being covered up by the authorities.”

WAMU 88.5 DC

“If she was now three months pregnant, her unborn child had been exposed to all that radiation during the disaster. In the Soviet Union, the decision was made that all pregnant women from Pripyat should”

WBUR Boston

“If she was now three months pregnant, her unborn child had been exposed to all that radiation during the disaster. In the Soviet Union, the decision was made that all”

WNYC 93.9 FM

“If Chernobyl had been an example of Soviet nuclear progress, then it couldn't be allowed to become an illustration of Soviet incompetence. The world must see they had it under control. They did admit officially, however, that only 31 people had died in the so-called accident.”

KQED FM

“They did admit officially however that only 31 people had died in the so-called accident. We felt really angry that we learned everything so late.”

KQED FM

“If she was now three months pregnant, her unborn child had been exposed to all that radiation during the disaster. In the Soviet Union, the decision was made”

KQED FM

“In the Soviet Union, the decision was made that all pregnant women from Pripyat should have an abortion. We had a slogan in the Soviet Union.”

WBUR Boston

“Nearly a fortnight after the fire in the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, it's clear that the reactor is still burning. There's a growing sense of urgency in the Soviet Union about the attempts by thousands of people to contain it.”

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