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Covering the Chernobyl Crisis

by Melissa Block, NPR
April 21, 2006

At 1:23 in the morning of April 26, 1986, there was a disastrous chain reaction in the core of Chernobyl reactor number four. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Serge Schmemann of the International Herald Tribune.

Schmemann was a New York Times reporter in Moscow 20 years ago when the accident occurred.

Copyright 2013 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.

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  • All Things Considered, April 21, 2006
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