BELARUS
. VASILY FEDOSENKO/REUTERS
Minsk, Belarus— Children affected by the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant attend a physiotherapy session on April 25. Thirty years after the 1986 disaster, many babies born in Chernobyl’s neighboring regions have birth defects and develop rare forms of cancer. A new concrete shield is scheduled to be installed this year over a reactor at the plant. The operation to dismantle Chernobyl’s radioactive core is one of the world’s largest engineering projects and could take another 30 years.