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• Chernobyl (Ecology)

  Chernobyl 1986 : when nuclear power came of age – « We have been warned »

  26 avril 2016, par PARKIN Brian

  30 years ago, at 1.23 am on the morning of 26 April 1986 the number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear generating site near Pripyat in Ukraine went on SCRAM alert. Within 3 seconds all of the reactors safety systems had failed and with control rods jamming the reactor core, the temperature rose (…)

• Chernobyl (Ecology)

  Collapse of Chernobyl nuke plant building attributed to sloppy repair work, aging

  25 April 2013, by Mainichi Shimbun

  CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — A Ukrainian government fact-finding panel has compiled a report attributing the partial collapse of a building in the Chernobyl nuclear power complex in February to sloppy repair work following a 1986 explosion and the aging of the structure, it has been learned.
  Moreover, (…)

• Energy (nuclear) (Ecology)

  Radioactive Cloud over Nuclear Renaissance – Two years after Fukushima, from Japan to India

  29 March 2013, by PURKAYASTHA Prabir

  Only the very foolish will argue that Fukushima’s near meltdown in 3 reactors and a fire in the fuel holding pond of the 4^th does not warrant a re-look at the nuclear energy polices of the world or of the country.
  The Fukushima plant had 6 reactors, out of which 3 were already shut down (…)

• Energy (nuclear) (Ecology)

  World Nuclear Industry: Renaissance or Decline?

  14 December 2012, by FROGATT Antony, SCHNEIDER Mycle

  The triple disaster that hit the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on 11 March 2011 has had a profound impact on public opinion and nuclear policy far beyond Japan. In China, the government froze all new nuclear projects. In the Republic of Korea public support for nuclear power plummeted. (…)

• Chernobyl (Ecology)

  Chenobyl Now: Animals flourishing in area near off-limits Chenobyl

  23 October 2011, by MATSUO Ichiro

  In southern Belarus along the border with the Ukraine stretches the Polessie State Radiation and Ecological Reserve, a foreboding name sure to keep the poachers and public out.
  Because it was contaminated by the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in 1986, the area is off-limits to (…)

• Chernobyl (Ecology)

  Chernobyl Survivor Warns of ’Bombshell’ in Japan

  26 April 2011, by AFP

  TOKYO - A survivor of the Chernobyl disaster says people exposed to radiation from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant will spend the rest of their lives fearing the “bombshell” of cancer and other dire illnesses.
  Tuesday marks the 25^th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear calamity and (…)

• Chernobyl (Ecology)

  Chernobyl Cleanup Survivor’s Message for Japan: ’Run Away as Quickly as Possible’

  22 April 2011, by MANZUROVA Natalia

  Natalia Manzurova, one of the few survivors among those directly involved in the long cleanup of Chernobyl, was a 35-year-old engineer at a nuclear plant in Ozersk, Russia, in April 1986 when she and 13 other scientists were told to report to the wrecked, burning plant in the northern Ukraine. (…)

• Chernobyl (Ecology)

  Casualties of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: “Official” and Other Versions

  22 March 2011, by SHERMAN Janette

  I. How many people died and how many more are likely to die in the future?
  The total number of deaths already attributable to Chernobyl or expected in the future over the lifetime of emergency workers and local residents in the most contaminated areas is estimated to be about 4000. This (…)

• Chernobyl (Ecology)

  Area around Chernobyl remains uninhabitable 25 years later

  15 March 2011, by SAUNDERS Doug

  Twenty-five years ago next month, tens of thousands of people in the northwestern corner of the Soviet Union fled after watching plumes of radioactive smoke rise from the explosion of the huge Chernobyl nuclear plant.
  A quarter century later, they still have not returned. The “exclusion (…)