Tag Archives: Russia/Ukraine/Chernobyl

India, Russia may join hands for providing nuclear energy to third country via The Economic Times

Posted on 2017/06/20 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] India and Russia are currently fine-tuning their civil nuclear energy partnership in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. India with its experience in the civil nuclear industry will train personnel and provide expertise to Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. India has entered … Continue reading →

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Belarus nuclear plant: A disaster waiting to happen via EUObserver

Posted on 2017/06/02 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Just over 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, which saw Belarus lose a quarter of its territory due to nuclear contamination, the former Soviet republic is set to see its first nuclear power station enter operation in one and … Continue reading →

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Exiled scientist: ‘Chernobyl is not finished, it has only just begun’ via USA Today

Posted on 2017/04/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

YURY BANDAZHEVSKY DETAILED CHERNOBYL’S DEVASTATING IMPACT ON PEOPLE’S HEALTH, PARTICULARLY THAT OF CHILDREN, IN BELARUS. NOW HE LIVES IN EXILE WHILE THE GOVERNMENT INSISTS “EVERYTHING’S OK.” Yury Bandazhevsky, 59, was the first scientist in Belarus to establish an institute to … Continue reading →

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Ukraine clings to nuclear power despite Chernobyl trauma via MSN

Posted on 2017/04/30 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Ukraine is still suffering from the trauma of the world’s worst civil nuclear accident at Chernobyl but has nonetheless turned the hazardous fuel into the backbone of its energy portfolio. The crisis-torn country now uses atomic power for more than … Continue reading →

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“Wherever it rains in the United States” via Reader

Posted on 2017/04/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Commercial media recollections of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe almost always minimize its global impact. A New York Times editorial last Dec. described the April 26 explosions and fires as “a volcano of deadly radioactivity that reached Poland and Scandinavia.” This … Continue reading →

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Radiation: A Conversation beyond Chernobyl and Fukushima via BOE Report

Posted on 2017/04/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

[…] This is particularly true of occupational cancers. According to the International Labour Organization an estimated 609,000 work-related cancer deaths occur worldwide each year, it still amounts to one work-related cancer death every 52 seconds. Dramatic incidents such as Chernobyl … Continue reading →

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Radioactive Goods Are Being Exported from Chernobyl

Posted on 2017/04/28 by nfield
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Our favourite Australian tattoo artist is launching a book about Fukushima with Bassike via Vogue Australia

Posted on 2017/04/27 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Fashion and art collide. You may remember Stanislava Pinchuk (known as Miso) from Vogue’s Art Week, but now the Australian artist-slash-tattooist has released a book with Sydney’s very own Bassike.  A match made in minimalist heaven, the collision between Miso … Continue reading →

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Nuclear town on fire, with residents ‘choking’ from smoke via The Siberian Times

Posted on 2017/04/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Facilities for producing weapons grade plutonium believed safe despite fierce flames caused by wildfires. The shoking pictures in Zheleznogorsk – a high-security closed nuclear town in Krasnoyarsk region – shows fires close to residential areas.  Citizens of the Siberian town, … Continue reading →

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False promise: nuclear power: past, present and (no) future via Ecologist

Posted on 2017/04/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Nuclear power was originally sold on a lie, writes Dave Elliott. While we were being told it would make electricity ‘too cheap to meter’, insiders knew it cost at least 50% more than conventional generation. Since then nuclear costs have … Continue reading →

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