Dimitri Novikov (22), was diagnosed with leukemia almost ten years ago and his health is deteriorating. In Belarus it is difficult to find the proper medicine so he receives medicine from friends abroad. Most of the work on the collective farm is too heavy for the young man so he sits around the house most of the day and helps his mother with a few small jobs. After the Chernobyl accident people were evacuated to Rogin, until it became clear that Rogin was also contaminated. Many have left the place; those who stayed live a life in poverty and isolation. 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.