“The normal [radiation level] is 10-15 [micro-roentgens per hour], which is what it was. I got into the car, drove in, took the equipment and drove to the Chernobyl zone. <…> It was around seven or eight in the evening that I drove there. I crossed Bobruisk, beyond Bobruisk somewhere on...
For nearly two decades, tourists and staff at the Grand Canyon, Arizona National Park have walked and stayed in the vicinity of three seemingly harmless-looking buckets. No one suspected that he was exposed to huge doses of radiation: the buckets contained ...
Press Secretary of the Greenpeace Russia energy program Konstantin Fomin wrote a story about the first nuclear disaster on Russian territory. The story is based on the words of the author’s grandmother, Taisiya Fomina, who witnessed this tragedy in 1957. 29 years before Chernobyl on a secret...
Roshydromet reported that in settlements near the Rosatom-owned Mayak plant in the Chelyabinsk region in September this year the highest concentrations of the radionuclide ruthenium-106 were recorded. This facility reprocesses spent nuclear fuel. Greenpeace is preparing a statement to the prosecutor's office, reports RFI. That…
The Institute for Nuclear and Radiation Safety of France announced a radioactive cloud over Europe, which could appear due to an accident at a nuclear facility in Russia or Kazakhstan. Writes about this Associated Press. According to experts, the accident could have occurred in the last week of September in the area ...
Lake Karachay, the most polluted place on Earth, is now mothballed. It was once a nuclear waste dump. Is this place safe today, RBTH reported. That this Lake Karachay is hardly an ideal place to relax or sunbathe. ...
Radiation contamination from Fukushima found in the United States. Writes about this New York Post. According to the newspaper, we are talking about the consequences of the 2011 disaster. Scientists have found traces of the radioactive isotope Cesium-134 in water samples taken at Tillamook Bay and Gold Beach in ...
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 ...