Big bad disasters
Jul 23, 1998
Katya Cenge
On April 26, 1986, radiation started to escape from the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine. The Soviet Army, including soldiers from all Soviet satellite countries, carried out the clean up. But more than a decade later, Latvian victims may finally be getting the help they need, as Katya Cengel reports."In our socialist system there can be no big bad accidents and no harm done to the people."That is what Arnolds Verzemnieks remembers being told and that is what ma ...
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