Canadian impacted by Chornobyl worries about another potential nuclear disaster in Ukraine
Global News
Alla Guelber came to Canada with her family when she was a young girl in the 1990s from Belarus. Shortly after Chornobyl, they visited Ukraine, not far from the nuclear plant.
As war rages on in Ukraine, the specter of another nuclear disaster only grows.
It’s been 36 years since the world witnessed in horror the catastrophic consequences of the explosion at Chornobyl, the full scale of those implications have, in many cases, been revealed slowly — life-altering impacts felt by some even today.
Those who know the dangers of radiation first-hand worry not enough is being done to prevent a repeat of Chornobyl.
“There’s been huge trauma in my family,” said Alla Guelber.
The Calgary woman came to Canada with her family when she was a young girl in the 1990s from Belarus.
She said the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Chornobyl disaster were deciding factors for her parents to leave.
Shortly after Chornobyl, they visited Ukraine, not far from the nuclear plant, before the full scale of the dangers were known.
“There were a number of family members affected in various ways,” said Guelber.