{"id":71073,"date":"2025-04-15T18:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/video\/2025\/apr\/15\/atomic-secrets-a-chornobyl-scientist-warns-of-a-toxic-future"},"modified":"2025-04-15T18:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T09:40:16","slug":"atomic-secrets-a-chornobyl-scientist-warns-of-a-toxic-future-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71073","title":{"rendered":"Atomic Secrets: a Chornobyl scientist warns of a toxic future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dmitry Kalmykov is a Ukrainian scientist who has dedicated his life to investigating environmental disasters, first at Chornobyl and now in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan – formerly the Soviet Union’s primary nuclear weapons testing site. He teaches schoolchildren about how bombs were tested, and how \u2013 more than 30 years after the site was decommissioned \u2013 the surrounding community is only beginning to comprehend radiation’s lasting deadly effects. Against the backdrop of war in Ukraine and the long shadow of a nuclear conflict across the region, Dmitry debates Kazakhstan’s nuclear future with its next generation<\/p>\n

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