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Chernobyl: the political fall-out continues
Just how bad was the world¹s worst nuclear disaster? The answer lies hidden within a web of politics and scientific uncertainty enmeshing the UN and eastern European governments (Fred Pearce, environmental journalist and consultant for the British weekly magazine, The New Scientist)

Belarus: Facing the disaster alone
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster continues to threaten the survival of the Belarusian people, says Vasily Nesterenko, a local physicist (Vasily Nesterenko is former director of the Nuclear Energy Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and currently head of the independent Institute of Radiation Safety, Belrad).