The Chernobyl disaster: a TV drama raises hope for workers



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Some of the miners who risked their lives to contain the fallout from Chernobyl have welcomed the attention that their work has brought to the success of the HBO series on the nuclear disaster. Hundreds of thousands of people – known as "liquidators" – have been ordered to clean up the radioactive site after the worst nuclear accident in the world in 1986. Thousands of people are thought to have been killed very early because of their exposure to radiation – and some of them still alive must fight for compensation promised by the state. Harry Horton has this report.

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