Reporting on Chernobyl, 25 Years Later

Season 2011

25 years after the Chernobyl disaster, how is the area coping? Miles O'Brien reports.

As the world's attention remains transfixed on the crippled nuclear reactors in Japan, Science Correspondent Miles O'Brien approaches nuclear energy from another side of the world: the Ukraine.The Chernobyl disaster occurred on April 26, 1986. With the anniversary of that date approaching, Miles has spent the last week surveying the situation there.

AIR DATE 3/28/11

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