Another April come and gone and no mention of Chernobyl. On April 26, 1986, 12,000 residents located about 81 miles north of Kiev, were awakened at 1:23 a.m. by the No. 4 nuclear power plant explosion, which killed two plant workers almost instantly. Eventually 28 workers died primarily of thyroid cancer in a four-month time frame.
A few hundred came back to Pripyat illegally, the Russians knew they are there. Most farmland was, and is, unsafe to use for 20,000 years — 100,000 people have already died as a result of the disaster. Much of Europe — Spain and Portugal and Belarus, and Russia, were affected. Europe had lesser degrees of damage.
I still haven’t read one single sentence in any major newspaper for the last 10 years.
Chernobyl still glows at night 25 years after the meltdown.
A bus tour will take you to the area for $125. Many believe it is now safe.
Jack H. Fantl
Lake Stevens
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