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...energy into music and long-distance running. He made the Olympic preparation team, he says: "My parents and teachers had to keep me tired somehow - otherwise I'd turn into some kind of sociopath." At 18, he and his family left Kiev after the nuclear disaster in nearby Chernobyl. By then, he was in a band and was already a fledgling rock star. "My friends were like, 'what the f___ are you doing? Your song is in the charts,' " says Hutz. "But if I didn't go then I would have never...
...habitation is the flutter of laundry on clotheslines. But the laundry has been there, day and night, since April 27. On that day, most of the town's 40,000 citizens hastily collected a few belongings and piled into buses that evacuated them from the vicinity of the shattered Chernobyl nuclear reactor only half a mile away. They did not know then, and do not know now, whether they will return home in months or years. Or ever. On this and the following pages, TIME publishes the first photographs to appear in the U.S. of the ruined nuclear plant...
Ever since the disaster, rumors have swirled throughout the country: that Chernobyl survivors could spread radiation like a contagious disease; that victims have been placed in lead coffins and buried in unusually deep graves; that vodka and red wine are effective antidotes to radiation. During a visit to Budapest, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev told Hungarian factory workers, ''Chernobyl has warned us once again: man has set in operation a really fantastic force that must be strictly controlled.'' It was a telling message that surely reverberated last week through the lifeless silence of Pripyat...
...After a burst of construction between the 1950s and late 1970s, a new nuclear power plant hasn't come on line in the U.S. since 1996, and some nations like Germany are looking to phase out existing atomic plants. That reverse is chiefly due to safety concerns - the lingering Chernobyl fears of nuclear meltdown, or the fact that we still have yet to devise a long-term method for the disposal of atomic waste...
...decades after banning nuclear power, following the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, Italy announced it will begin building new nuclear facilities, spurred by surging oil prices and concerns over the effect of fossil fuels on the environment...