Chernobyl Victims Documentation (Ukraine and Belarus)

Alexandra Prokopenko (9) has hydrocephalus, an accumulation of fluid within the cranium causing great enlargement of the head. Her father, Vitaly, quit his job to take care of his daughter, being the only one in the family strong enough to carry her. Chernobyl in the Ukraine became the site of the most infamous nuclear disaster accident of all. In 1986 the explosion of the nuclear reactor affected the lives of millions in Western Russia, Belarus and the Ukraine. Both countries have plans to build new reactors to export energy to Europe.