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A first physician-responder to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster will speak in Omaha on May 12. 

Radiation countermeasures expert Dr. Alla Shapiro, a Chernobyl first responder, says war conditions make it harder to save lives in event of attack on nuclear power plant

Listen • 6:02 This April 26, 1986 file photo shows an aerial view of the Ukrainian Chernobyl nuclear plant, with damage from an explosion and fire in reactor four on that sent large amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere. (Volodymyr Repik/AP) In April 1986 — 35 years ago this week — some 30 people were killed when a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history, in terms of both cost and casualties. Radioactive particles were released in a cloud that drifted over most of Europe, c...

Dr. Alla Shapiro, April 2021 (Olga Shapiro) No. 4 reactor building in its confinement shelter, and the Chernobyl nuclear disaster memorial, September 2013. (calflier001 via wikicommons) A Soviet medical technician checks an unidentified child one of the evacuees from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident moved to the Kopelovo State Farm in the Ukraine near Kiev, May 11, 1986. This picture was made by a visiting photographed on a trip organized by Soviet officials to show how they are dealing with the accident. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko) A Soviet technician checks water taken from a strea...