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 The BBC's Mike Donkin"The health threats will continue for many more years to come"  real 56k Adi Roche of the Chernobyl Children's Project"The effects of the disaster have moved to the next generation"  real 28k |
In pictures: the Chernobyl anniversary
Fifteen years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, people have been remembering the catastrophe in Ukraine and around the former Soviet Union.
A woman places a candle at a memorial in Slavutich, the town where Chernobyl workers lived
A priest prays for the victims during an anniversary service marking the disaster
Some of the relatives are overcome by emotion during the ceremonies
Widows weep by the graves of their husbands who died in the disaster
The village of Duduchi in Belarus was abandoned after the disaster, but on remembrance day residents have the chance to return
Zoya Gnetova walks around her house which she has been forced to leave due to high radiation levels
Relatives far away in Moscow also remembered the catastrophe
The plant itself was closed last December and will be entombed in a massive sarcophagus
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