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Last Updated: Tuesday, 12 June 2007, 10:47 GMT 11:47 UK
The BBC News website visits Chernobyl, 20 years on from the tragic nuclear accident.
Chernobyl's nuclear graveyard

CHERNOBYL VOICES

Olexiy Breus Olexiy, former Chernobyl operator
'It seemed to me it had to be a mass grave'
Oleg Ryazanov Oleg, power station worker
'It's depressing - soon my job will cease to exist'
Professor Igor Komissarenko Igor, thyroid surgeon
'The closer to the Chernobyl region, the more cases of cancer'

Hanna Semenenko Hanna, Chernobyl evacuee
'We took nothing with us but our souls'
Lena and Anna Kostuchenko Lena, local mother
'I was in the wrong place at the wrong time of my pregnancy'
Mikhailo Martinyuk Mykhailo, leukaemia patient
'Finding the money for medicine is difficult here'

ANNIVERSARY

Mourners at a vigil for the victims of Chernobyl in Kiev, Ukraine Grieving Ukraine recalls disaster
As ceremonies mark the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, people in the region find it hard to forget and hope the world will remember.

Ukraine marks Chernobyl blast
In pictures: Remembrance
Q&A: Chernobyl 20 years on
On This Day: Nuclear accident
Chernobyl nightmare revisited

IN PICTURES

Pripyat: Chernobyl's lost city
Lost city in pictures
The Chernobyl accident
Chernobyl's contaminated graveyards
Contaminated vehicles
Belarus aftermath
Chernobyl's ghostly villages
Ghost villages
Photojournal: Life in the zone

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

Chernobyl disaster
The accident explained.
FEATURES
Chernobyl's unsettling legacy
Greenpeace rejects Chernobyl toll
Radiation impact still undecided
Gorbachev weighs the legacy
BBC reporters: Chernobyl diary

VIDEO AND AUDIO NEWS
Chernobyl nuclear plant Back to Chernobyl after 20 years




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