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Chernobyl Cleanup Survivor's Message for Japan: 'Run Away as Quickly as Possible'

By Dana KennedyMar 22nd 2011 – 1:23PM
Courtesy of Natalia Manzurova

Courtesy of Natalia Manzurova

Natalia Manzurova, one of the few survivors among those directly involved in the long cleanup of Chernobyl, was a 35-year-old engineer at a nuclear plant in Ozersk, Russia, in April 1986 when she and 13 other scientists were told to report to the wrecked, burning plant in the northern Ukraine. It was just four days after...

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