Tag Archives: Chernobyl

Chernobyl-area land deemed safe for new agriculture via Nuclear Newswire

Posted on 2024/09/26 by nfield

Tue, Sep 24, 2024 More than 80 percent of the territory that has been surveyed around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant “can be returned to agricultural production,” said Valery Kashparov, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Agricultural Radiology (UIAR) of the National University … Continue reading →

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A strategy of concealment via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2023/09/25 by nfield

By Kolin Kobayashi Agencies that promote nuclear power are quietly managing its disaster narrative This year marks the 13th year since the Fukushima accident began, yet the path to a conclusion is by no means clear. The declaration of a … Continue reading →

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Links between Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power

Posted on 2023/05/10 by nfield

This resolution was passed at the 23rd World Congress, in Mombasa, Kenya  by the IPPNW International Council – April 30th, 2023 IPPNW affirms that the links between nuclear power and nuclear weapons are such that in order to fully abolish … Continue reading →

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How Ukraine war has affected work in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone via RTÉ

Posted on 2023/02/24 by nfield

Analysis: the area is ideal for researchers studying the long-term ecological effects of a nuclear disaster, but war has made it inaccessible By Alexandre de Menezes, University of Galway and Olena Pareniuk, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine There is a renewed threat of nuclear … Continue reading →

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Ukraine still fears another Chernobyl-size disaster at Europe’s largest nuclear plant via Reader Supported News (NPR)

Posted on 2022/12/13 by nfield

Julian Hayda 13 december 22 Sophia Arkadiyivna remembers when the Soviet Union built the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1977, just 20 miles from the village where she served as mayor. After years of atomic energy powering big Russian cities … Continue reading →

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Trespassing in the deadliest place on earth via The New European

Posted on 2022/07/14 by nfield

By Charlie Connelly 30 JUNE 2022 12:00 AM They took all the kettles. That was weird. What was even weirder was thatthey left behind all the base plates needed to make the kettles work. One of the most alarming aspects … Continue reading →

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‘Atoms and Ashes,’ a Frightening Tour of Six Nuclear Accidents via The New York Times

Posted on 2022/05/20 by nfield

Serhii Plokhy writes about Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and other disasters, and about the common impulse among governments “to hide information and, later, to spin or distort it.” By Jennifer Szalai ATOMS AND ASHESA Global History of Nuclear DisastersBy Serhii PlokhyIllustrated. … Continue reading →

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Inside Chernobyl: We stole Russian fuel to prevent catastrophe via BBC

Posted on 2022/04/13 by nfield

By Yogita Limaye The former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in northern Ukraine was taken over by Russian forces on the first day of the invasion. It’s now back under Ukraine’s control. The BBC’s Yogita Limaye is among the first … Continue reading →

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Russian troops took highly radioactive ‘souvenirs’ looted from Chernobyl, Ukraine says via Insider

Posted on 2022/04/10 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Alia Shoaib Russian soldiers looted highly radioactive “souvenirs” from Chernobyl, a Ukrainian agency said. The items could cause radiation burns, radiation sickness, and irreversible processes in the body. Last week Ukraine said it had regained control of the power plant, … Continue reading →

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Nuking their own via Beyond Nuclear International

Posted on 2022/04/04 by nfield

Russian soldiers may be suffering radiation sickness from “Red Forest” exposure By Julia Conley, Commons Dreams Editor’s note: There are also wildfires raging in the area that Ukrainian authorities said could not be put out due to the Russian takeover, … Continue reading →

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