Article 6WMK6 Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future

Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future

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Zhanana Kurmasheva, Banu Ramazanova, Lindsay Poult
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Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan - formerly the Soviet Union's primary nuclear weapons testing site. He teaches schoolchildren about how bombs were tested, and how - more than 30 years after the site was decommissioned - the surrounding community is only beginning to comprehend radiation's lasting deadly effects. Against the backdrop of war in Ukraine and the long shadow of a nuclear conflict across the region, Dmitry debates Kazakhstan's nuclear future with its next generation

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