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Articles on Chernobyl
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The initial impact of the catastrophe on nature was important, but the exclusion zone has now become a natural reserve.
In 2011 the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster struck Japan. Eight years later, Fukushima is perceived in very different ways by the West and by Japan.
We asked climate researchers to peer through the smog and highlight some positive stories from 2018.
Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima demonstrated the difficulty of managing a disaster at a nuclear power plant. What is the situation in France?
Forging emotional bonds through care, companionship and shared experiences, two very different countries built civic ties from the rubble of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
On March 11, 2011, a nuclear disaster struck Japan. Translated testimony by the power plant’s manager reveals how close the world came to a greater catastrophe – and how much there is to be learned.
Stand by for drones, robots and sensors to the rescue.
In recent years, the number of people traveling to sites of death, natural disaster, acts of violence, tragedy and crimes against humanity has dramatically increased. Is it immoral?
The next generation of reactors provide in-built safety systems and a way to reuse old fuel.
This year saw nuclear weapons tested, stockpiles renewed, and disasters remembered.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse has documented heart-rending testimonies and elicited shattering revelations. But how does a society witness itself failing at its most fundamental duty?
Disaster tourism and obsessions with sites of death and destruction can be a learning experience, not just voyeurism.
Chernobyl is already responsible for up to 5,000 cases of cancer in Europe.
The meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 exposed 572 million people to radiation. No other nuclear accident holds a candle to that level of public health impact.
How do we measure long-term impacts of nuclear accidents? Studies at Chernobyl and Fukushima show that radiation has harmed animals, birds and insects and reduced biodiversity at both sites.
Chernobyl’s liquidators have come up with some intriguing ways of dealing with what they’ve gone through – without directly confronting painful memories.
Engineers have devised an innovative way to dismantle Chernobyl’s reactor while preventing further radiation escaping.
Small nuclear reactors are one step closer to powering the UK’s future energy requirements.
Estimating health impacts after a nuclear accident is more complicated than you might think.
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