Radiation levels near this Siberian village were 1,000 times above normal last fall. But no one worried much
over 7 years in LA Times
Boris Salomatin has lived his entire 60 years down a dirt road in the tiny village of Khudaiberdynsk, a few miles from the entrance to the massive Mayak nuclear fuel reprocessing complex. The year he was born, this Siberian landscape on the edge of the Ural Mountains bore the brunt of one of the...