fire sucked in oxygen and spewed radioactive isotopes in the air. 7 Immediately without any explanation, residents from the Chernobyl area were quickly evacuated. Over 50,000 people were transported by Kiev buses. Only by Monday morning did people start getting suspicious. Monitoring stations inother parts of the country reported radiation levels up to one hundredtimes normal. By that afternoon Swedish scientists found isotopes likekrypton, xenon, iodine, cesium and cobalt in the fallout-a radioactive mix that could only have come from an accident of a reactor. The Swedes concluded that a meltdown occurred somewhere. Later on they determined when the cloud arrived and what rout it took, so the began backtracking. They were able to draw a line going through Latvia over Moscow and into Minsk. However further testing proved that Cernobyl was the site of the meltdown. In Kiev things were going smooth joggers jogged, kids played outside and life was going just the same. However other countries were well aware of what was going on and immediately evacuated more then 200 tourists out of Kiev. But even though that Soviet Union claimed that it was not dangerous to be outside radiation levels soared, and the government gave out an iodine solution to children under 16, and as far as Tokyo it was recommended in newspapers not to drink rainwater. In an interview in Hamburg, Yeltzinsaid that 49,000 people have been evacuated and that 20 to 25 people were seriously ill, and that 40 more people received fatal doses ofradiation "but definitely not hundreds or thousands as reported by theWestern press." However the festivities in Kiev were in progress and parades with flashing red flags covered the streets. Poland was the country worst affected by the radiation in all of Europe toddlers were treated with iodine and milk was dumped out. In other countries radiation spread as well. In Italy border patrols halted thirty two freight cars loaded with ca...
