Photojournalism nominees
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Title:burnt_earth_01 KAZAKHSTAN / Semipalatinsk / 01.08.2010 Berik Sysdikov (born 11.1.1979) is holding his nephew. Berik's mother had been exposed to radioactivity caused by the nuclear weapons tests nearby during the years of atomic testing. Between 1949 and 1989 almost 500 atomic bombs were ignited for test purposes by the Soviets in the region of Semipalatinsk. Still today the region has a high frequency of various diseases primarily due to fallout from nearby nuclear test sites.
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