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Memories of Chernobyl: an Oral History of the Nuclear Disaster

Alexeevich

54K8.05

On April 26, 1986, the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Residents of neighboring Belarus lost everything. Some people died on the spot, and more people were evacuated and were forced to abandon all their belongings. Thousands of acres of land were contaminated, and thousands of people were infected with various diseases due to the leakage of 20 tons of high-radiation nuclear fuel. A famous reporter Alexievich spent three years interviewing survivors of the disaster: the wives of the first rescuers to arrive at the disaster site, on-site photographers, teachers, doctors, farmers, government officials at the time, historians, scientists, forced evacuees, resettled people, wives and grandmothers.