The family played with it, showed it off to neighbors, even ingested some. They sold it to a scrapyard, and the family of the scrap dealer discovered a strange glowing substance inside - cesium 137. Some scrap thieves broke into a closed-up hospital to steal a radiotherapy unit (for zapping tumors).
"Around the same time as Chernobyl," he adds, "a horrible incident occurred in a small city in northern Brazil, called Goiania.
It was taken 20 years after the Chernobyl accident, but still told the story of those kids all jumping up at once to flee the nuclear cloud, a slice of life frozen in disaster," he tells me in an email conversation. It showed a classroom full of desks, "each with a textbook on it, all turned to the same page. Scott Westerfeld says the inspiration for his new graphic novel Spill Zone came partly from a photograph taken in Pripyat, the city just outside the Chernobyl nuclear complex. Addison, the elder, gets on her motorbike after dark and ventures into the city, now deserted and terribly transformed after a mysterious incident called the Spill - which claimed both their parents. Lexa, mute, communicates only with her unnerving rag doll. In the dark forests outside Poughkeepsie, N.Y., two sisters live alone. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Spill Zone 1 Author Scott Westerfeld
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