Chernobyl residents remember disaster, worry about jobs

Saturday, April 27, 2002

SLAVUTYCH, Ukraine -- Hundreds of people, many of them still working at the Chernobyl power plant, braved the biting cold on Friday to lay flowers and light candles at a memorial service to loved ones who died in the world's worst nuclear accident 16 years ago.

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