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Nuclear disasters > April 26, 1986 > Chernobyl, Ukraine

Halyna Markevych, 82, and her husband, Evgen, 86,

in their home in March inside Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone.

Photograph: Emile Ducke

CHERNOBYL DISPATCH

Ghosts Past and Present Cross Paths

as War Comes to Nuclear Wasteland

Not everyone evacuated

when the Chernobyl nuclear plant melted down in 1986.

The few who stayed

lived through another calamity when Russian troops marched in.

NYT

April 14, 2023

Updated 9:31 a.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/
world/europe/chernobyl-russia-ukraine-war.html

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.

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

NYT 6 May 2014

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.nytimes.com/2023/04/14/
world/europe/chernobyl-russia-ukraine-war.html

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

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/02/
738019227/uncovering-the-story-of-chernobyl

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.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/04/chernobyl_
disaster_25th_annive.html

https://www.npr.org/2011/04/12/
135353240/fukushima-vs-chernobyl-what-does-level-7-mean

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

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

Remembering Chernobyl, 20 Years Later

https://www.npr.org/series/
5369553/remembering-chernobyl-20-years-later

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

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