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According to the United Nations, the Chernobyl explosion contaminated more than 100,000 square miles of land and affected nine million people.
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Ten years ago this week, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in the densely forested plains of Ukraine.
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About one thousand of those Jews, all children, came to Israel for medical treatment.
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The medical treatment program was sponsored by a religious organization called khah-BAHD.
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Hundreds of thousands of Jews living in Ukraine and Belarus were affected by the Chernobyl disaster.
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NPR's Linda Gradstein reports that ten years ago this week, the Chernobly nuclear reactor exploded in the densely forested planes of Ukraine. It spewed a cloud of radioactive gas into the atmosphere that — according to the United Nations — contaminated more than 100-thousand square miles of land and affected nine million people in some way ... Among them were hundreds of thousands of Jews living in Ukraine and Belarus. About one thousend of them...all children...came to Israel for medical treatment under a program sponsored by a religious organization called khah-BAHD. Gradstein tells us how those kids are doing.

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