The Chernobyl disaster began in the early morning hours of April 25, 1986 when a shift operating the nuclear reactor exploded showering radioactive debris from the power nuclear plant in the northern Ukraine over most of eastern Europe. This radioactivity was hundreds of times more powerful than the atomic bombings at Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The explosion left the surrounding area looking like a ghost town. People rushed to get themselves and their families to safety. It left in its aftermath an estimated 32,000 dead. Chernobyl left something else besides it’s radioactivity, many illnesses that will plague the people of this area forever. Scientist have dubbed one syndrome the “Chernobyl AIDS”. It has been estimated to have effected some 30,000 in the area. The syndrome, which is said to decrease the number of “natural killer” cells in the ....

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