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Vocapedia > Earth > Environment > Nuclear disaster > Chernobyl, Ukraine - Чорнобильська катастрофа    April 26, 1986

 

 

 

Pryryat, Ukraine

 

A view of the abandoned hospital

which received the first causalities

on the night of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

 

Photograph: Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA

 

The mini-series Chernobyl made by HBO

depicts the explosion’s aftermath,

the vast clean-up operation

and the subsequent inquiry.

 

The success of the series has driven up

the number of tourists wanting to see the plant

and the ghostly abandoned town of Prypyat.

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Sat 15 Jun 2019        09.29 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/jun/15/
the-20-photographs-of-the-week

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Animals of Chernobyl        Video        The New York Times        6 May 2014

 

Biologist Timothy Mousseau

has been studying the lasting effects of radiation

on the flora and fauna of Chernobyl, Ukraine.

 

Produced by: Erik Olsen

Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/1o2H7Kf

Watch more videos at: http://nytimes.com/video

 

YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG-nwQBBfmc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Boston Globe > Big Picture

Chernobyl disaster 25th anniversary        25 April 2011

 

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/04/
chernobyl_disaster_25th_annive.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chernobyl, Ukraine        1986        UK / USA

 

On April 26, 1986,

reactor number four

at the Chernobyl nuclear power facility

in what is now Ukraine exploded.

 

The largest civil nuclear disaster in history

led to mass evacuations,

and long-term health, agricultural,

and economic distress.

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/chernobyl-nuclear-disaster

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/16/
chernobyl-was-even-worse-than-tv-series-kim-willsher

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/10/
political-expediency-chernobyl-catastrophic-continues-today

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/07/
chernobyl-now-i-was-not-afraid-of-radiation-a-photo-essay

 

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/may/07/
chernobyl-review-chaos-reigns-in-confusing-nuclear-disaster-epic

 

https://www.npr.org/2019/05/06/
720570638/hbos-chernobyl-is-a-dramatization-of-1986-nuclear-accident

 

https://www.theguardian.com/global/audio/2019/apr/25/
are-our-blueberries-radioactive-the-chernobyl-nuclear-cover-up

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/apr/10/
nuclear-wasteland-inside-chernobyl-exclusion-zone-in-pictures-pripyat-david-mcmillan

 

 

 

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/15/
502165456/gigantic-shield-moves-into-place-to-cover-exploded-chernobyl-reactor

 

https://www.npr.org/2016/04/26/
475773250/reuters-reporter-explores-life-in-chernobyl-30-years-after-nuclear-disaster

 

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/apr/09/
chance-show-truth-into-heart-of-chernobyl-nuclear-disaster

 

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/apr/05/
inside-abandoned-city-pripyat-30-years-chernobyl-in-pictures

 

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/
exposure-chernobyl/

 

 

 

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/06/
science/nature-adapts-to-chernobyl.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/02/
opinion/the-right-lessons-from-chernobyl.html

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/04/27/science/chernobyl-
capping-a-catastrophe.html

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/26/chernobyl-
lessons-missed-research-gaps

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/26/chernobyl-
legacy-no-return

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/26/chernobyl-
radioactive-fires-global-danger

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2011/apr/26/
chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-in-pictures

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/apr/26/inside-chernobyl-
control-room

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/26/us-ukraine-chernobyl-
idUSTRE73P17D20110426

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/04/chernobyl_
disaster_25th_annive.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/19/us-ukraine-chernobyl-
conference-idUSTRE73I10E20110419

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/12/us-japan-fukushima-
idUSTRE73B1RH20110412

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/at-chernobyl-a-warning-for-japan/
2011/03/31/AFLGWeXC_story.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/15/us-nuclear-chernobyl-
facts-idUSTRE72E42U20110315

https://www.npr.org/sections/talk/2011/02/23/
133994878/life-thriving-in-the-chernobyl-exclusion-zone

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2005/apr/25/
energy.ukraine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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