PREMIUM --

A radioactive specialist measures a level of the radioactive contamination of soil, which exceeds a normal one in 150 times, as his assistant makes
some notes at the Kopachi village, 6 kilometers (3,7 miles) from the 1986 disaster site at the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant, Ukraine, on September 15, 1999. Some 23 mobile radiological laboratories from the 12 European countries take part in this training. Photo of Viktor Pobedinsky/ UPG/ABACA.