The town of Muslyumovo has to be one of the saddest places on earth. The thousands of people who have little choice but to live here, on the banks of the Techa river not far from Russia's southern border with Kazakhstan, are the victims of a nuclear disaster that began more than six decades ago.
They are still suffering with the consequences of life next door to the Mayak nuclear plant , and still dying from the radiation-related illnesses that have claimed the lives of so many before them.
On the way to the plant, constructed in the 1940s, our crew was forced to avoid several checkpoints, and to conceal our cameras - we made do, in the end, with a small camera mounted on the windscreen.
Thus equipped, we drove to within a hundred metres of the plant gates. Read More
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