Chernobyl

When Chernobyl went boom in 1986, I was 5 years old. That, and I was roughly within 70km away from ground zero, living my peaceful life as a happy little person in Kiev, Ukraine. The local nuclear power station exploding was certainly not a pleasant experience to say the least, but one thing made my (and most other people living in Kiev) life somewhat more livable - the wind carried most of the fallout towards Russia and Belorus, and only 30% or so went towards Kiev. Although, with state-controlled media, who knows. Maybe the fallout went all over the place.…