Thirty years on from the world's worst nuclear accident, millions of people are still living with radioactive fallout from Chernobyl.
In contaminated areas, radiation touches every aspect of people's lives: it's in the food they eat, the milk they drink, and in the schools, parks and playgrounds their children play in.
The human toll of reactor accidents is why nuclear power may never gain widespread acceptance, no matter how much the industry tries to reassure us that risks are low.
Chernobyl is the disaster the industry hoped we would have forgotten by now. But the meltdown of Fukushima's reactors in March 2011 reminded the world that nuclear accidents can happen anywhere. Five years since Fukushima, we're seeing the same social upheaval that followed Chernobyl.
Radioactive contamination has forever changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people.
Sadly, we know from Chernobyl that the social scars caused by Fukushima will continue for decades.
Every day, five million Chernobyl survivors in the Ukraine, Russia and Belarus must make decisions on how to reduce or limit their exposure to radiation. Every day parents in contaminated areas have to wonder whether they are doing right by their children.
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