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Ukraine starts construction of nuclear waste storage facility in Chernobyl area via New China

Posted on 2017/11/12 by nfield

KIEV, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) — Ukraine has started a construction of a facility for nuclear waste near the destroyed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, local media reported on Saturday. The central spent fuel storage facility (CSFSF), which would cost an estimated … Continue reading →

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Nuclear accountability curbed by EU politics and industry interests via EUObserver

Posted on 2017/07/03 by nfield

A meeting of the parties to the UN convention on environmental impact assessment in a transboundary context (Espoo) took place last week in Minsk, Belarus. Among other things, it helped to showcase the influence that politics and the nuclear industry … Continue reading →

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Ukraine Energy Wars Are Leading To A Fukushima-Chernobyl Debacle In Europe via Nuclear News

Posted on 2016/12/26 by nfield

(Archives edition Looking back on the dodgy Ukrainian nuclear energy industry a possible source of HEU for Jihadists in our latest report By Yoichi Shimatsu Exclusvie to Rense 1-5-15) Clashes over energy in Ukraine between the West and Russia could … Continue reading →

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Is solar power in nuclear disaster exclusion zones advisable? via Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Posted on 2016/09/09 by norma field

By Arnold Gundersen A July 2016 article in The Guardian said that the country of Ukraine has been soliciting funds for a proposed project to turn extensive swathes of ground adjacent to Chernobyl into a gigantic solar collector full of … Continue reading →

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Agency raises red flag over toxic imports　via Mediamax

Posted on 2016/08/04 by norma field

Kenyans have been warned that vehicles and food items entering the country from Japan and Ukraine may have been exposed to radiation, which experts say could be behind the increased cases of cancer. A parliamentary committee heard that most of … Continue reading →

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‘Threat of 2nd Chernobyl’: Kiev’s new nuclear project puts Europe at risk, Greens warn via RT

Posted on 2016/07/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

The construction of a spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Ukraine poses “significant safety risks for the whole of Europe” because of numerous rule and standards violations, Ukrainian environmentalists warn. The Ukrainian Greens Association, a non-profit environmentalist organization, listed the … Continue reading →

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

Posted on 2016/04/27 by norma field

Yury Bandazhevsky, 59, was the first scientist in Belarus to establish an institute to study Chernobyl’s impact on people’s health, particularly children, near the city of Gomel, about 120 miles over the border from Ukraine. He was arrested in Belarus … Continue reading →

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Ukraine receives first fuel batch from US Westinghouse for NPP this year — minister via Tass

Posted on 2016/02/06 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Overall, five such fuel deliveries are scheduled for the Ukrainian NPPs this year […] “Five out of thirteen deliveries will be made by Westinghouse [the other deliveries will be carried out by Russia]. This is far from [energy] independence but … Continue reading →

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Nuclear Reactors Make ISIS an Apocalyptic Threat via Reader Supported News

Posted on 2015/11/27 by norma field

By Harvey Wasserman s you read this, a terror attack has put atomic reactors in Ukraine at the brink of another Chernobyl-scale apocalypse. Transmission lines have been blown up. Power to at least two major nuclear power stations has been … Continue reading →

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Nuclear waste stored in ‘shocking’ way 120 miles from Ukrainian front line via The Guardian

Posted on 2015/05/13 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Experts raise concerns over waste stored in the open air at Europe’s largest nuclear power station, as the conflict increases Ukraine’s reliance on power from its ageing plants Concerns have been raised by environmentalists and atomic power experts over the … Continue reading →

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