# chernobyl - Monday 26 April, 2021
# Chernobyl
# Chernobyl
A reactor at the nuclear power plant exploded on 26 April 1986.
# chernobyl - Friday 17 April, 2020
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
A number of small blazes in the wooded area are still burning about 80 km north of Kiev.
# chernobyl - Thursday 16 April, 2020
# Chernobyl
# Chernobyl
Firefighters battled large blazes in the area for 10 days earlier this month.
# chernobyl - Tuesday 14 April, 2020
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
Hundreds of firefighters have been battling several forest fires around Chernobyl for the past 10 days.
# chernobyl - Wednesday 25 March, 2020
# Evening Sitdown
# Evening Sitdown
It’s a coronavirus-free zone as we bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news.
# chernobyl - Monday 23 December, 2019
# Lyudmila Ignatenko
# Lyudmila Ignatenko
Lyudmila Ignatenko’s husband Vasily was one of the first firefighters to die after the disaster.
# chernobyl - Thursday 16 May, 2019
# Opinion
# Opinion
‘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.
# chernobyl - Saturday 8 December, 2018
# Chernobyl Heart
# Chernobyl Heart
The group are travelling with the charity Chernobyl Children International.
# chernobyl - Sunday 29 April, 2018
# Disaster Zone
# Disaster Zone
Almost 50,000 people toured the area last year.
# chernobyl - Wednesday 14 March, 2018
# Winter Paralympics
From The42
# Winter Paralympics
Oksana Masters was born in 1989 three years after a reactor exploded at the nuclear plant.
# chernobyl - Tuesday 27 June, 2017
# NotPetya
# NotPetya
The attacks began in Russia and Ukraine before spreading to western Europe and the US.
# chernobyl - Friday 16 June, 2017
# Fake Samples
# Fake Samples
The 59-year-old duped teenagers and woman into believing he worked for the Ministry of Defence.
# chernobyl - Wednesday 26 April, 2017
# Un Chernobyl Day
# Un Chernobyl Day
Let’s show the people of Chernobyl that they are not forgotten, writes Adi Roche.
# chernobyl - Friday 30 December, 2016
# Sudden Spike
# Sudden Spike
Arrangements were made to impound any produce which showed unacceptable levels of contamination.
# chernobyl - Wednesday 30 November, 2016
# Finding Banni
# Finding Banni
The footage was captured by Irish journalist Colm Flynn while working on his documentary Finding Banni.
# Ukraine
# Ukraine
The Soviets built the original one in haste when disaster struck three decades ago.
# chernobyl - Thursday 10 November, 2016
# Comeback
From The42
# Comeback
Last month, the Russian star’s 24-month ban for testing positive for meldonium was cut to 15 months.
# chernobyl - Sunday 1 May, 2016
# 30 Years On
# 30 Years On
The Chernobyl explosion was the biggest nuclear catastrophe of the 20th century.
# chernobyl - Saturday 30 April, 2016
# Meltdown
# Meltdown
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.
# chernobyl - Tuesday 26 April, 2016
# Fallout
# Fallout
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.
# chernobyl - Saturday 19 December, 2015
# Chernobyl
# Chernobyl
An Irish funded team of “flying doctors” have flown into Eastern Ukraine while dozens of children are coming over to Irish families for Christmas.
# chernobyl - Sunday 11 October, 2015
# Amazing
# Amazing
30 years on from the disaster no human life remains, but the same cannot be said for wildlife.
# chernobyl - Monday 16 March, 2015
# Damaged
# Damaged
A person has been arrested and charged in connection with the incident.
# chernobyl - Sunday 11 January, 2015
# How To Save A Life
# How To Save A Life
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.
# chernobyl - Thursday 18 December, 2014
# Heartwarming
# Heartwarming
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).
# chernobyl - Wednesday 3 December, 2014
# chernobyl - Sunday 22 June, 2014
# Chernobyl Children International
# Chernobyl Children International
The children travel to Ireland every year to stay with Irish families during the summer months.
# chernobyl - Sunday 15 June, 2014
# Nuclear
# Nuclear
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.
# chernobyl - Thursday 22 May, 2014
# Guardian Angels
# Guardian Angels
Miroslava was at serious risk of dying from ‘Chernobyl Heart’.
# chernobyl - Saturday 26 April, 2014
# Chernobyl Anniversary
# Chernobyl Anniversary
The increasingly volatile situation in strife-torn Ukraine is raising new fears for Chernobyl .
# chernobyl - Wednesday 23 April, 2014
# Chernobyl
# Chernobyl
Adi Roche said that a large amount of “highly unstable” radioactive material was still present at the site of the 1986 disaster.
# chernobyl - Saturday 26 October, 2013
# This Modern Life
From The Daily Edge
# This Modern Life
From the ‘nuclear disaster’ selfie, to the ‘in jail’ selfie.
# chernobyl - Sunday 22 July, 2012
# Japan
# Japan
It’s claimed workers were forced to underreport the amount of radiation they were exposed to so they could stay on the job longer.
# chernobyl - Thursday 26 April, 2012
# Chernobyl
# Chernobyl
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.
# chernobyl - Sunday 22 April, 2012
# Remembered
# Remembered
Incredible images of the “ground zero” of the 1986 accident.
# chernobyl - Sunday 11 March, 2012
# Japan
# Japan
“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.
# chernobyl - Friday 17 February, 2012
# Disaster
# Disaster
The former Prime Minister acknowledged there were flaws in how authorities handled the Fukushima crisis last year.
# chernobyl - Sunday 25 December, 2011
# Review 2011
# Review 2011
The nicer side of the news…
# chernobyl - Wednesday 24 August, 2011
# Opinion
# Opinion
After Fukushima, nuclear power has become a bogeyman – but we shouldn’t dismiss it out of hand, writes physicist David Robert Grimes.
# chernobyl - Tuesday 2 August, 2011
# Fukushima
# Fukushima
Levels of radiation in some areas of the plant are so high they would be lethal within one hour.
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