Chernobyl Heart

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Chernobyl Heart is a documentary film by Maryann DeLeo released on DVD in 2003. The film won the Best Documentary Short Subject award at the 2004 Academy Awards.

"Chernobyl Heart" is a medical condition caused by the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster of 1986^{[citation needed]}. The condition weakens the circulatory system, and has affected a large number of children in Ukraine and Belarus who have grown up near the place of the accident. Chernobyl Heart by Maryann DeLeo is a short documentary which offers a look at the children and families who are facing this dangerous disease. "The film explores how the spread of radioactivity has brought the malady through the health and social service programs of the former Soviet Union," writes Mark Deming of All Movie Guide.

[edit] External links

• Chernobyl Heart at the Internet Movie Database
• Movie Website
• Hearts and minds An opinion piece from Nuclear Engineering International, a nuclear energy industry special interest group
• Chernobyl Children's Project International The organization featured in the film "Chernobyl Heart."