Victims of Chernobyl disaster in 1986

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Victims of Chernobyl disaster in 1986

This is the story that I created looking out for information on New York Times and World Nuclear association. This story is based on facts only.

            I was only five when the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl exploded in April 1986. At the time Soviet Union had control over Chernobyl and places around. I was living in Olsztyn, in northern Poland about 400 miles from Chernobyl. You might think I lived far away enough to be kept safe from the disaster, but the Chernobyl nuclear explosion was enormous. It spread across Ukraine, Belarus, and even northern Poland where I was living.

            Over 25 years, people have been suffering from thyroid problems in Olsztyn. Every hospital in the city was devoted to thyroid disease. This is no exaggeration. People took in immense amount of radioactive radiation and it caused havoc in thyroid gland. In 2006, my turn came. My thyroid had become so enlarged that it impinged on my trachea, making it hard to breathe in certain positions. It reached to a point where I decided to wear turtlenecks for my entire life even on the hottest day.

            As I myself proved, it takes years before you know the accident in Chernobyl affect the health of people who lived nearby. We are the living proof of the risk and danger that nuclear power potentially have.

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