Fukushima may not turn into another Chernobyl but that disaster does offer painful lessons

Olzhas Auyezov reports from Prypyat, Ukraine, 25 years after the nuclear disaster

ANY Ukrainian over 35 can tell you where they were when they heard about the accident at the Chernobyl plant.

“I remember calling my husband. There had been rumours for days about a nuclear accident. We had even hung blankets on the windows to stop radiation because we didn’t know what to do,” said Natalya, a 46-year- old financial analyst in Kiev, whose husband was a journalist on a daily newspaper.