Galina Miroshnichenko (34 years old), has thyroid cancer. Thyroid cancer is almost epidemic in the Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, especially amongst women. 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.