The Kramatorsk Radiation Accident - Nuclear Apartment

Between 1980 and 1989, four people between two young families would die of leukemia. The connection? They all lived in the same room in an apartment building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. This episode of [HALF-LIFE HISTORIES] explains how a single misplaced capsule became one of history’s worst orphan source accidents.

00:00 Intro
00:42 Olympic Pressure
04:05 Unit 85
07:40 Immeasurable Grief
10:29 ЖЕРТВЫ ЧЕРНОБЫЛЯ
14:29 Orphans

SOURCES:
Research by: Kyle Hill & Citation Compilation by: @adef

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980-olympics.html.

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“Elän”
Meydän
“Freezing but warm”
Meydän
“Elk”
Meydän
“Away”
Meydän
“Deadly Isotopes”
Meydän

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