From ocean waves to electricity: clean power for our planet

When Inna Braverman was two weeks old, the Chernobyl nuclear plant exploded. It was 1986 and the Braverman family was living just outside Kiev, well within the fallout range from the Chernobyl disaster. As baby Inna breathed in air tinged with radioactive dust, she stopped breathing. “I went into full respiratory arrest,” Braverman explains in an emotional interview with ISRAEL21c. Braverman’s mother approached her daughter’s crib and began screaming. But she was also a nurse. After a few long seconds of paralysis, she administered CPR to the tiny infant. It saved her life. Four years later, the Braverman family left the former USSR for Israel. Inna was still very sick. “I’d get blue marks on my body, as if I’d been hit.” But the effects of radiation poisoning eventually dissipated and Braverman grew up healthy in the Holy Land.