Christie Brinkley, Public Health Advocate, Warns of Radiation Dangers in Ukraine: 'Game of Russian Roulette'
Christie Brinkley.Photo: Cassidy Sparrow/WireImage As Russian forces seize at leastone major nuclear power plantin theirongoing invasion of Ukraine, a surprising advocate has emerged with a warning. Christie Brinkley, in a letter to the editor sent toThe New York Timesthat was published Tuesday, writes that radiation dangers in the war-torn country are “a game of Russian roulette the world can’t afford to play.” Citing the recent seizure of a nuclear power plant in a southern-central region of Ukraine, Brinkley, the famed model and the vice president of theRadiation and Public Health Project, writes that it was “nothing short of a miraculous stroke of luck” that the region avoided a “massive meltdown” after a fire broke out due to the attack from Russian troops....