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A leukemia patient and her mother at a Minsk hospital downwind of Chernobyl.

Nadezhda Perchak wipes the snow off a memorial to her son and other victims of Chernobyl at a special cemetery.

A young resident of a home for abandoned children in Semipalatinsk, near a former Soviet nuclear testing site.

Nafigina Maufra, 64, of Muslyumovo, describes how she swam in the contaminated Techa River downstream from the Mayak Chemical Complex in Russia. Nuclear waste from the complex was dumped into the river for years.

Berik Syzdykov, 14, lives downwind of the Semipalatinsk test site in Kazakhstan. He has large flaps where his eyes should be, is blind, and has the mental capacity of a six-year-old. The region's people suffer from high cancer rates and weakened…

honeymooners Layne and Shauna Johnson, who have Down's syndrome, return home to Utah, downwind of the Nevada Test Site.

'We took some pictures and they all had these spots on 'em, fogged by radiation,' said Rudy Florentine of Ventnor N.J. 'We were gung-ho cause we were getting out POWs' from Nagasaki. He and his family suffer a variety of health problems, including…

In the B Reactor at Hanford, Washington, plutonium was produced for the world's first nuclear test, and for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

Annie Meyers of New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, holds a calf born after the 1979 Three Mile Island accident. 'Oh, it's real. It's not a phony,' said Dr. Robert Weaver, the veterinarian who delivered the calf.

Steam comes out of the cooling towers of Reactor 1 at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, which was restarted October 3, 1985