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Hard duty: A woman’s experience at Chernobyl (2006)
| Author | N.Manzurova, C.Sullivan |
| Date | 2006 |
| Classification | 2.34.8.10/107 (CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT - CONSEQUENCES SURROUNDINGS - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
Hard Duty Getting together The Cold War had been over for eleven years in 2002 when Natalia Borisovna Manzurova and I were partners in a program funded by the US State department for Russian and American women concerned about safety issues stemming from the application of nuclear technology for weapons and civilian nuclear power. The Institute for Social Renewal and Action in Eurasia (ISAR) sponsored our partnership in 2002 and also in 2003 when Natalia and I met in Russia with injured workers from the Chernobyl accident and from Mayak, the formerly secret nuclear weapons plutonium production plant in Natalia's hometown in the Ural Mountains. Later on the same trip we met in the US with former nuclear weapons workers also suffering health problems. The US film company, 'Visionaries,' produced a mini- documentary on our partnership for US public television. Then in the spring of 2004 I met Natalia in Kyiv, Ukraine, 60 miles from Chernobyl and we travelled with the Friends of Chernobyl Centers, United States (FOCCUS), an organization that supports Ukrainian Community Centers founded by the United Nations in communities heavily hit by social and medical problems linked to the accident. During the FOCCUS trip Natalia told us about life as one of thousands of Soviet citizens - liquidators – who struggled to mitigate the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. Cathie Sullivan, Tesuque, New Mexico, February, 2006 @Copyright, 2006 Natalia Borisovna Manzurova & Cathie L. Sullivan,
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