Eye-Opening AMA Reveals What It's Like Growing Up In The Shadow Of A Nuclear Disaster

Twenty-eight years after the utterly devastating Chernobyl nuclear accident, a Reddit user has provided a harrowing account of growing up in the shadow of the disaster. That user, CCPKA, did an eye-opening "Ask Me Anything" on Saturday that talked about being a kid in the north of Kiev, Ukraine, about 60 miles from the Chernobyl power plant. At the time of the 1986 explosion that released massive amounts of radioactive particles into the air, Ukraine was still part of the Soviet Union. And the ...