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Article: Chernobyl perils Lapps' reindeer, culture
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- February 22, 1987
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LONDON Slowly, the outside world is learning the full extent of
the disaster wrought by Chernobyl on "The People of the Reindeer,"
the Lapps. A British television documentary is the latest to chart
the ruin.
"The Sami (Laplander) culture has encountered difficulties
before, but nuclear pollution is the single worst disaster," one
expert said. "The future looks grim."
"We could destroy a culture and a tradition of great
importance," says Norwegian Social Affairs Minister Tove Strand
Gerhardsen in the British TV study of "An Invisible Enemy."
When the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl in the Ukraine exploded
last April, it spewed out radioactive poison that drifted over much
of Europe. ...