March 25, 2011
In the early morning of 26 April 1986, a major nuclear accident occurred in reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine. The reactor’s explosion and subsequent burning went down in history as the world’s worst civilian nuclear accident to date. The consequences were felt across Europe – and persist even today, 25 years later.
In March 2011, a Greenpeace research team visited several places in Rivnenska and Zhytomyrska Oblast, Ukraine, to collect samples of food products produced in those areas and which comprise a significant component of the local diet.
>> Download the findings of the investigation.
>> Download the factsheets: Chernobyl, 25 years later.
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