A schoolboy being tested by a Red Cross employee in Ukrainka, Ukraine. Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part series about the Chernobyl disaster. UKRAINKA, Ukraine — Lidiya Makarova spent most of her 69 years in a village within the contamination zone of the 1986 Chernobyl accident. But this month is the first time she decided to have her thyroid screened. “I have […]