Chernobyl’s new sarcophagus

Re:Chernobyl’s new sarcophagus by myth_drannon on Sunday January 08, 2017 @07:16AM (#13349399)

A mandatory read about how people's lives were affected by the accident - "Chernobyl Prayer" - Svetlana Alexievich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svetlana_Alexievich)

She won the Nobel prize for her writing.

The accident happened in Ukraine but a fact that is not usually written is that Belarus had a QUARTER of it's land mass polluted (and Belarus is a large country).Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

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Re:Chernobyl’s new sarcophagus by IvarTheHomeless on Sunday January 08, 2017 @02:33PM (#13351461)

I showed a Ukrainian a photo of Steven Seagal holding gift melons from the president of Belarus, her response was "Only old people who don't care about radiation buy produce from Belarus"

http://time.com/4468168/steven-seagal-carrot-watermelon-mins...

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Re:Chernobyl’s new sarcophagus by jedmeyers on Sunday January 08, 2017 @02:25PM (#13351413)

I've also read that Belarus still spends around 20% of their budget on Chernobyl disaster related activities and payouts.

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