by Mordechai Telsner | Oct 23, 2015 | Chernobyl in the News
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — The latency of radiation-induced differentiated thyroid cancer appears to last longer than 30 years, according to researchers in the Ukraine, which bore the brunt of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. Click here for rest of...
by Mordechai Telsner | Oct 8, 2015 | Chernobyl in the News
Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarussian journalist and prose writer known for deeply researched works about female Russian soldiers in World War II and the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday “for her polyphonic...
by Mordechai Telsner | Oct 8, 2015 | Chernobyl in the News
Svetlana Alexievich won the Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. The following excerpt of her work is taken from “Voices From Chernobyl.” The book, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award, is a compilation of interviews with survivors of the nuclear reactor...
by Nis Frome | Sep 13, 2015 | Chernobyl in the News
Ukraine’s political and economic meltdown could spell doom – or at least delay – for a containment dome being built over Chernobyl. Construction of the coated steel, climate-controlled sarcophagus was begun in 2010 to cover the site of the infamous...
by Nis Frome | Sep 13, 2015 | Chernobyl in the News
Former power plant and neighbouring city of Pripyat are slowly becoming hidden from view by Red Forest Ukrainian government evacuated 350,000 residents from Chernobyl and Pripyat following 1986 disaster Read...
by Nis Frome | Sep 13, 2015 | Chernobyl in the News
ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2012) — A 20-year study following 110,645 workers who helped clean up after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident in the former Soviet territory of Ukraine shows that the workers share a significant increased risk of developing...
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