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Article: Different cloud lingers over Chernobyl: Sense of victimhood and fatalism does more damage than radiation.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- April 9, 2006
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Byline: Erika Niedowski
Apr. 9--CHECHERSK, Belarus -- The aims are decidedly modest: to mow overgrown grass in front of weathered, long-abandoned houses; open a bakery to provide fresh bread to children at village schools; plant small gardens to yield fruit and vegetables free of radiation. Those small steps are part of the latest chapter of the long recovery effort in this part of the former Soviet Union 20 years after an explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, the deadliest accident in the history of nuclear power. The accident occurred 120 miles to the southeast, across the border in Ukraine. Thousands of workers labor at the site to maintain the ...
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