Chernobyl
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Adam Higginbotham on Chernobyl January 29, 2021
Adam Higginbotham talked about his book, "Midnight in Chernobyl], about the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine....
Chernobyl's Political Fallout May 24, 2019
In the city of Pripyat in Ukraine, built for workers at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant, stands a bronze statue of the god Prometheus clasping fire in his outstretched arms. It was intended to symbolise the triumph of human ingenuity in tami...
The Chernobyl Syndrome March 22, 2019
On the night of April 25, 1986, during a planned maintenance shutdown at the Chernobyl power plant in northern Ukraine, one of the four reactors overheated and began to burn. As plant engineers scrambled to regain control of it, they thought for a mo...
Is Chernobyl Still Killing Us? March 15, 2019
At a checkpoint on the border between the U.S. and Canada in 2017, American homeland security agents stopped an articulated lorry for a routine check.Running a Geiger counter over its trailer, they were alarmed to discover a ‘radiating mass' was puls...
A Nuclear Disaster on Soviet watch February 25, 2019
Although not recognized as such at the time, the deadly explosion that wrecked the Soviet Union's showcase nuclear plant in Chernobyl in 1986 was an advance obituary both for the country and the very concept of the communist doctrine.With overabundan...
A Terrifying History of the Meltdown at Chernobyl February 08, 2019
The word “Chernobyl” has long been synonymous with the catastrophic reactor explosion of 1986 — grim shorthand for what still qualifies, more than three decades later, as the world's worst nuclear disaster.As infamous as it is now, it's easy to forge...
