Acrid smoke lingers over Kiev from fires in Chernobyl nuclear exclusion zone
A number of small blazes in the wooded area are still burning about 80 km north of Kiev.
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A number of small blazes in the wooded area are still burning about 80 km north of Kiev.
Firefighters battled large blazes in the area for 10 days earlier this month.
Hundreds of firefighters have been battling several forest fires around Chernobyl for the past 10 days.
It’s a coronavirus-free zone as we bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
Lyudmila Ignatenko’s husband Vasily was one of the first firefighters to die after the disaster.
‘The Chernobyl series on Sky TV is an honest, truthful and a jarring appraisal of human behaviour – acting as a cautionary tale for all of us’, writes Adi Roche.
The group are travelling with the charity Chernobyl Children International.
Almost 50,000 people toured the area last year.
Oksana Masters was born in 1989 three years after a reactor exploded at the nuclear plant.
The attacks began in Russia and Ukraine before spreading to western Europe and the US.
The 59-year-old duped teenagers and woman into believing he worked for the Ministry of Defence.
Let’s show the people of Chernobyl that they are not forgotten, writes Adi Roche.
Arrangements were made to impound any produce which showed unacceptable levels of contamination.
The footage was captured by Irish journalist Colm Flynn while working on his documentary Finding Banni.
The Soviets built the original one in haste when disaster struck three decades ago.
Last month, the Russian star’s 24-month ban for testing positive for meldonium was cut to 15 months.
The Chernobyl explosion was the biggest nuclear catastrophe of the 20th century.
Three men risked their lives by climbing into a pool of radioactive water in an attempt to stop an explosion that would have destroyed the entire plant.
Three decades on from the disaster, we take a look at the effect it had on Ireland – and how we’re facing a much greater threat to our health already.
An Irish funded team of “flying doctors” have flown into Eastern Ukraine while dozens of children are coming over to Irish families for Christmas.
30 years on from the disaster no human life remains, but the same cannot be said for wildlife.
A person has been arrested and charged in connection with the incident.
The baby boy will be the first of 30 children in Eastern Ukraine to have the surgery they so desperately need to keep them alive.
The children, who come from impoverished backgrounds and state-run institutions in Belarus, are being flown to Ireland by Adi Roche’s Chernobyl Children International (CCI).
‘Serene and disturbing.’
The children travel to Ireland every year to stay with Irish families during the summer months.
Fossil fuels are messy, costly, dangerous to workers and killing our planet. Nuclear energy could be the answer if we let go of illogical, emotional arguments against it.
Miroslava was at serious risk of dying from ‘Chernobyl Heart’.
The increasingly volatile situation in strife-torn Ukraine is raising new fears for Chernobyl.
Adi Roche said that a large amount of “highly unstable” radioactive material was still present at the site of the 1986 disaster.
From the ‘nuclear disaster’ selfie, to the ‘in jail’ selfie.
It’s claimed workers were forced to underreport the amount of radiation they were exposed to so they could stay on the job longer.
People lay flowers and lit candles to mark the occasion. Ukraine’s president vowed today that his country is committed to building a new, safer shelter over the damaged Chernobyl reactor.
Incredible images of the “ground zero” of the 1986 accident.
“If the atomic world has nine lives, five of them have already been used” – the Chernobyl Children International founder is in Japan for the first anniversary of the 11 March 2011 disaster.
The former Prime Minister acknowledged there were flaws in how authorities handled the Fukushima crisis last year.
After Fukushima, nuclear power has become a bogeyman – but we shouldn’t dismiss it out of hand, writes physicist David Robert Grimes.
Levels of radiation in some areas of the plant are so high they would be lethal within one hour.
People from Ukraine to South Korea gathered today at memorial services to mark the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear accident.