Foreign Correspondent S30E27 · Fallout: The Legacy of the Chernobyl Disaster

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The site of the world's worst nuclear accident Chernobyl is now a tourist destination. Linton Besser visits the exclusion zone to see the devastation of nuclear meltdown, government-sanctioned cover-up and radiation sickness.

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