There were shifts in the direction of greater opposition to the existing local nuclear plant, and the building of more nuclear power stations elsewhere in the country; comparable shifts were not found in attitudes toward non-nuclear industrial developments. Post-Chernobyl attitudes were closely related...
Ukraine claimedthat Russian President Vladimir Putin had "ordered the preparation of a terrorist attack" on theChernobyl nuclear power plant. The main electric supply to the plant was cut off earlier that week, with Ukrainian authorities blamingRussia's invading forcesfor the blackout and warning th...
during an unauthorized test of one of the plant's four reactors, engineers initiated an uncontrolled chain reaction in the core of the reactor after disabling emergency backup systems. On Apr. 26, an explosion ripped the top off the containment building, expelling radioactive material into the at...
However, the United Nations nuclear watchdog denied any critical safety risk after receiving the Ukrainian report about the loss of power at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Wednesday. "Heat load of spent fuel storage pool and volume of cooling water at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sufficient...
Before the disaster at the Chernobyl plant, nuclear catastrophe had been only a fear, a threat. But when the Chernobyl plant was destroyed, those fears were suddenly all too real. Frederik Pohl's novel about this disaster was written months after the tragic events. He had the cooperation of...
CS-134/137 CONTAMINATION AND ROOT UPTAKE OF DIFFERENT FOREST TREES BEFORE AND AFTER THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT The Cs-134/137 activities were measured from different tree organs of spruce, larch and sycamore maple. Two locations in South Bavaria were monitored durin... ERTEL,ZIEGLER - 《Radiat Enviro...
Film director and cameraman Vladimir Shevchenko died of radiation sickness in 1987. Helpful•1 0 British twin artists, Jane and Louis Wilson became interested in Vladimir Shevchenko's fate and created their own film "The Toxic Camera" (2012). They searched for and found Shevchenko's camera, ...
The Chernobyl plant, some 110 km north of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, suffered one of the worst nuclear accidents in human history on April 26, 1986. Russian forces had been in control of the Chernobyl plant for five weeks before withdrawing on March 31, according to the IAEA. ...
NARRATOR: The shattered reactor after the catastrophe - high radiation levels escape unchecked. No one had expected such a disaster. Thousands of helpers, so-called liquidators, shovel debris into the ruin. That’s how they’re trying to reduce the radioactive emissions. And they’re exposed to...
April 26, 1986, 4th reactor of Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes. Alexey is first on the scene (he was on leave, but saw the explosion on hopped on the first fire truck he could find). Tigran (Samvel Tadevosian), firefighter has severe radiation burns after he was ordered to look into...