Lithuania remembers Chernobyl

  • 2006-03-02
  • by TBT staff
VILNIUS 's Seimas (Lithuania's parliament) will commemorate 20 years since the Chernobyl nuclear plant tragedy on April 25, the parliamentary board announced.

An organization called the Chernobyl movement, alongside the Ukrainian Embassy to Lithuania, will open an exhibition at the Seimas gallery on Chernobyl's after-effects in Eastern Europe.

In early hours of April 26, 1986, several explosions in the fourth nuclear block at Chernobyl led to a collapse of the reactor, releasing radioactive material into the environment and polluting large territories of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.

The disaster claimed more than 4,000 lives, and some 3 million people suffered from the after-effects.