25 Year Aniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear Explosion

[agusovsky]

This year like never before we remember Chernobyl nuclear explosion that happened on April 26, 1986.  First of all the memories were brought to us in March after the tragedy of the tsunami and earthquake in Japan that involved a similar nuclear reactor and second, today it is the 25 year anniversary or as one journalist wrote “quarter century mark

Comments

[agusovsky]

yes, here in USA, we hear news and everything passes by if it didn't touch us personally. Thanks for sharing your story.

[ygalperina]

I was 14. I remember I was glad that we did not have to take final examinations at the end of the school year.

Also, when we were on that train to Voroshilovgrad (Lugansk) whenever the train stopped strange people would give us food or water, or whatever they had. They were crying and saying something like "please, take the apples (or whatever they had). Poor kids from Chornobyl"

[agusovsky]

for some reason I absolutely don't remember that. What else do you remember that I didn't mention here?

[ygalperina]

Well, I remember papa brought geiger counter from school. We were measuring radiation level in the house - the dust under beds and in corners was fine. I think (not 100% sure) that Pushok's fur was radiating little more than supposed to...

Also I remember that once my physics teacher learned from the kids in school about the incident - his kids were on their way to Siberia the same day which was April 26...

I remember a few months later our neighbor t.Anya went to Chornobyl as a contractor to clean it up. Our dad was trying to talk her out of it, but she said that the pay was good...

[levinius]

wow, that's pretty sad - about the woman I mean. Overall, thank you both for sharing.
I don't remember anything (I was 4), except for some news on TV and my parents being worried. I think even in Moscow I wasn't allowed to go out, and I was upset about it, because it was just beautiful outside.