Thursday
November 14, 2024
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Nine years after the nuclear melt-down at the Chernobyl Atomic Station spewed a radio- active cloud across much of the Ukraine, Russia and Bellarus, doctors and scientists are just beginning to come to terms with the long term medical effects. In Ukraine, doctors have already noticed heightened levels of thyroid cancers among children, the unexpected re-emergence of diseases, suggesting the populations immune systems are being damaged, and perhaps most alarming, evidence to suggest long-term genetic damage. Producer Anthony Brooks travels to Kiev and to Chernobyl with Ukrainian journalist and former Nieman Fellow Vladimir Voina to examine the legacy of one of the world's worst nuclear disasters.
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Programs by Anthony Brooks
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