Where are you going, Iryna?

I was a young journalist in the UK when the nuclear accident at Chernobyl happened. At first it seemed like another of the many terrible things that happen in far-off countries and make only brief headlines in our media before quickly disappearing from the front pages. Soon, though, a radioactive cloud began spreading across Europe and, perhaps for the first time, we were all forced to realise what a small, fragile world we live in.