Victims remember Chernobyl disaster

Across the former Soviet Union, people lit candles, laid flowers and held demonstrations today to mark the 18th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which spread radiation over much of northern Europe.

In all, seven million people in the former Soviet republics of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine are estimated to suffer physical or psychological effects of radiation related to the April 26, 1986, catastrophe, when reactor Number 4 exploded and caught fire.