The United States has pledged $ 10 million in aid to victims of the Chernobyl disaster. On April 26, 1986, after the explosion of the fourth reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, 350 thousand people were evacuated. According to State Department spokesman John Kirby, the allocated funds will go ...
On April 20, an exhibition of the American documentary filmmaker and photographer Philip Grossman "Chernobyl: Tragedy, Lessons, Hope" opened at the UN headquarters in New York. It is timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of one of the most terrible man-made disasters in the history of all mankind. American in Chernobyl Philip ...
In Stockholm, within the framework of the traditional Nobel week, the Belarusian writer Svetlana Aleksievich delivered a lecture, who won the 2015 prize in literature. The award for the classic of Russian-language literature was awarded with the wording "for the polyphonic sounding of prose and the perpetuation of suffering and courage." The Nobel Prize Ceremony will take place ...
The fire in the exclusion and resettlement zone on the territory of the Chernobyl Pushcha has not stopped for more than ten days. Despite the measures taken by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, about 5 hectares of peat are still smoldering. According to Ukrainian authorities, “as of 7...
The fire on the territory of the Chernobyl Pushcha, in the exclusion zone, spread in separate pockets over an area of about 130 hectares on Tuesday morning. Rescuers and special services continue to extinguish it. A fire in the area of the village of Kovshilovka and the settlement of Poleskoye in the floodplain of the Uzh River began...
Ukraine wants to reduce the exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, limiting it to a radius of 10 km, said Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Igor Shevchenko. Now the radius of the zone is 30 km. After reduction in the rest of the territory, a biosphere reserve can be created, in which ...
The fire in the exclusion zone near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has been localized, but has not yet been extinguished, the Ukrainian authorities announced. According to official reports, the radiation situation in Kiev and Kiev region does not exceed the standard indicators. The main versions of the fire near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant are deliberate arson and careless ...
As of 22:00, firefighters again knocked down the top flame of the fire in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exclusion zone before dark. Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov announced this on Facebook. “By the evening the wind stopped and the situation around the key outbreaks can be quickly localized...