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Old 05-15-2008, 09:17 AM
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Originally Posted by EastChestnut View Post
Ukraine also sits on quite a significant part of of the former USSR's nuclear assets (that couldn't be relocated back to Russia). Urkaine is also home to Prippyat, the town which was abandoned due to Chernobyl.
She was living in the Ukraine during the Chernobyl incident and remembered how everyone went around as if nothing was going on until radiation was reported downwind in other countries. When we were at PSU together she did a paper on the whole incident and her experiences were better then reading it in a book. It was creepy!
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