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The Nation.
n the spring of 1986 the English language, and nearly every other, acquired
a new word for catastrophe: Chernobyl. On April 25, 1986, when Reactor
No. 4 at the nuclear power station near a leafy village some eighty miles
north of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev began to melt down, the world
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Everything was radiant. The whole sky.
A tall flame. And smoke. The heat was
awful. And hes still not back. The
smoke was from the burning bitumen,
which had covered the roof. He said later
it was like walking on tar. They tried to
beat down the flames. They kicked at the
burning graphite with their feet. They
werent wearing their canvas gear. They
went off just as they were, in their shirt
sleeves. No one told them.
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