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Children play by the contaminated Techa River.
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The leader of the local environmental group, Louisa Korzova, is taking me to the site of the regions first atomic disaster.
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Accompanied by a local engineer, I am tracking down the radiation leaked from underground nuclear storage facilities.
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Dressed in radiation suits, we use a giger counter to measure radioactivity.
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Armed with a geiger counter borrowed from Cornell University, Robert Reiger measures the radiation at the Techa River. The results read 50 times higher than the normal background radiation.
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