[Photo Story] Radioactive silence

Three days after the 1986 nuclear plant accident in Chernobyl it rained, ruining their crops and turning the green grass red. They believed the nuclear leak had only affected their vegetables and environment, but they later realized people were also affected. Cancer patients we spoke with in Rize, one of the cities with the highest recorded incidences of cancer, said cancer is as common as influenza there and that every family has at least one cancer patient. Despit