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Signs of Life: Pripyat and Chernobyl
Pripyat, a city near the Dniepr river in northern Ukraine, was built in 1970 to house workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, just three kilometres away. Almost 50,000 people lived and worked...
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Chernobyl has taught us more about the industry and politics than radiation...
Pripyat is still abandoned, and 25 years later the same mistakes are made and the same questions hang over the IAEA and nuclear industry. A quarter century after the world’s worst nuclear accident in...
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I feel like I’ve spent a couple of months now reading everything I could find about the Chernobyl disaster, the unfolding crisis at Fukushima, and scientific papers on contamination effects,...
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Radiation: what we do and do not know
Accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima expose how little we know about radiation As the baton of nuclear disaster is handed after 25 years from Chernobyl to Fukushima, scientists still find themselves...
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