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Children of Chernobyl (1996)

AuthorA.Roche
Date1996
Classification 2.34.8.11/22 (CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT - CONSEQUENCES SURROUNDINGS - MEDICAL & MUTATIONS)
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Adi Roche's involvement with Chernobyl led right into the 'purple zone' itself, 
which on 26 April1986 became the most radioactive place on earth. The 
radioactivity was ninety times the level of the Hiroshima bomb and will remain 
harmful for at least a thousand years. Countless villages lie suddenly abandoned, 
their occupants now permanent refugees in their own country. 170,000 children 
under seven received doses high enough to cause thyroid cancer.

In 1991 the Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (ICND) and the Cork Youth 
Association responded to a call by American and Belorussian doctors to receive 
sixty children from Chernobyl for rest and healing in Ireland. Many more were to 
follow. The Chernobyl Children's Project was formed in association with Irish CND 
and soon Adi Roche, the Project workers and volunteers began to organise convoys 
to the contaminated areas of Belarus, the country which received over 70% of the 
radioactive fallout These convoys brought urgently needed medical aid. The value 
of the shipments to date exceeds the aid given by the United Nations.

Chernobyl Children is Adi Roche's vivid and shocking account of the 1986 disaster 
and its aftermath. Although its conclusions are depressing and contrast strongly 
with the claims of the nuclear industry, the book also records the efforts of 
ndividuals offering hope to live and the hand of friendship to the embattled people 
of Belarus, Western Russia and the Ukraine.

ALL ROYALTIES FROM THE SALE OF THIS BOOK WILL GO TO THE CHERNOBYL CHILDREN'S PROJECT

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