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World Service,7 mins

The "Chernobyl hedgehogs"

The Fifth Floor

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Anastasia Zanuda was just thirteen when the world's worst nuclear reactor explosion happened. She was at school in the Ukrainian capital Kiev around 90 kilometres from Chernobyl, and travelled along mushroom picker routes to escape the radiation. Today a Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ Ukrainian journalist she remembers her time as a "Chernobyl Hedgehog", the name given to evacuees on account of their shorn heads. (Photo credit: Getty images)

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