Posted on 24/04/04
At home in the hot zone
CHERNOBYL, UKRAINE -- When the nightmare finally ended for Maria Dikha, she wanted nothing more than to go home.Eighteen years ago, Ms. Dikha was a security guard at Unit No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant when its reactor exploded, spewing thousands of tonnes of radioactive dust into the sky in what remains the world's worst nuclear accident.
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