are more and more coming to use online services (see Roland Stanbridge's article 'Journalists begin to embrace online databases', Information World Review, December 1992) and here Mr Stanbridge gives a journalist's account of tracking down the elusive facts surrounding the Chernobyl disaster.doi...
under the title “Nuclear paranoia”, made scornful remarks about a statement by the chairman of the CND that a disaster of the Chernobyl type could occur in Britain and called, like everyone else, for a “vital” explanation of the cause of the accident. In one...
Chernousenko's "Chernobyl" is a first-hand account of the events and facts surrounding this global disaster: The first part of the book includes an absoring account of what happened at Chernobyl nuclear power station on April 26, 1986, as well as a review of the rectification measures taken...
Since theFukushima disaster(March 11th, 2011)some American supplement sellers spread the rumor that Siberian and Chinese Chaga could no longer be trusted; it’s ‘soaked with radioactivity‘. In Germany theChernobyl disaster(1987)is still considered a valid reason to avoid Siberian Chaga in particul...
Almost 30 years after a horrific accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant released massive amounts of radiation and became one of the world's worst nuclear catastrophes, the long-abandoned site has some new inhabitants: New research finds that many native wildlife species are once again findi...
1 Chernobyl Disaster (1986, Ukraine)Chernobyl nuclear reactors. The Chernobyl disaster, occurring on April 26, 1986, stands as the most catastrophic nuclear accident in history. Initiated by a flawed reactor design and operational errors during a test, it led to an explosion and fire at Ukraine...
It struck me that we’ve written a few posts either about places directly related to the Chernobyl disaster, or places that we have since learnt have a connection to the filming locations. So with the heightened interest in the events that surrounded Chernobyl, it seemed like a good time to...
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39 | The Chernobyl Disaster Shutterstock As if people in the '80s didn't feel anxious enough about the threat ofnuclear war, the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 made everyone all the more acutely aware of how vulnerable they really were. On April 26, 1986, at a nuclear power plant in Ukraine...
On March 11th, 2011 the Tōhoku earthquake and resulting tsunami wreaked havoc on Japan. It also resulted in the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl when the tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Radioactive particles were relea