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The world’s worst nuclear accident occurred in the former Soviet Union on April 26, 1986.Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, sending radioactive debris over a large area of Northern Europe.Dire predictions were made at the time about the consequences of the radioactive fallout. In 2005, to investigate these predictions, journalists Cliff Orloff and Olga Shalygin traveled to the Chernobyl Contamination Zone to talk to survivors still living there.What really ha… More >>
It was more of the personal stories of the peasant villagers who lived with Chernobyl…not the effects worldwide or any emphasis on Cold War intensities.
Rating: 2 / 5
I am a teacher and was very excited to see that there was a new DVD on Chernobyl showing the effects of the accident 20 years later. The DVD is very dry and mentioned that there was a high rate of thyroid cancer among the people in the area, but the casualties were low so it didn’t seem to matter how many people were sick. I would have liked to hear more figures and results. It is very pro nuclear power as a green source of energy, but seemed to gloss over some information which made my students wonder how safe and green the energy source really is.
Rating: 1 / 5