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Journeys of Discovery: Cal Poly professor revisits "Chernobyl with Love"

KCBX | By Tom Wilmer
Published October 28, 2019 at 5:09 PM PDT
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Author Katya Cengel has her radiation levels measured before exiting the exclusion zone surrounding Chernobyl.
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Journalists, including Cengel, take photographs of the sarcophagus covering the destroyed reactor at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on the eve of the plant's shutdown in 2001.
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Katya Cengel is an adjunct professor of journalism at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo.
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Correspondent Tom Wilmer visits with Cal Poly adjunct journalism professor Katya Cengel to talk about her newly released book, "From Chernobyl with Love." Cengel’s memoir recounts her experiences working as a journalist in Kiev and the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia from 1998 through 2003. 

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Tom Wilmer produces on-air content for Issues & Ideas airing over KCBX and is producer and host of the six-time Lowell Thomas award-winning NPR podcast Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Recorded live on-location across America and around the world, the podcasts feature the arts, culture, music, nature, history, science, wine & spirits, brewpubs, and the culinary arts--everything from baseball to exploring South Pacific atolls to interviewing the real Santa Claus in the Arctic.
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