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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...sounds like a bad joke, or perhaps the world's biggest public-relations challenge. The Russian firm AtomStroyExport (ASE) is trying to sell nuclear reactors to Finland - one of the countries worst affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. It's a tough job. On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear-power station's No. 4 reactor experienced a massive fire and meltdown, releasing radioactive dust that wafted over Finland. The resulting contamination forced Finnish authorities to slaughter almost a half a million farm animals and restrict fishing in rivers and lakes in central and northern Finland until 1988. Those memories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aw, Forget Chernobyl! | 9/7/2003 | See Source »

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