by Nis Frome | Sep 13, 2015 | Chernobyl in the News
TOKYO — Elevated levels of cesium still detected in fish off the Fukushima coast of Japan suggest that radioactive particles from last year’s nuclear disaster have accumulated on the seafloor and could contaminate sea life for decades, according to new research. view...
by Nis Frome | Sep 13, 2015 | Chernobyl in the News
Maria arrived in Belarus today to visit children living in areas affected by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster and to see for herself the work of a number of UNDP youth-focused projects that her Foundation has helped fund. As soon as she landed, Sharapova went to...
by Nis Frome | Sep 13, 2015 | Chernobyl in the News
PRIPYAT, Ukraine — Nature has done its ruthless work. The main soccer stadium is now a football forest. Birches and poplars have crowded the field, pushed through the asphalt running track, blocked an entrance to the grandstand. Moss grows in clumps on concrete steps...
by Nis Frome | Sep 13, 2015 | Chernobyl in the News
STONY BROOK, N.Y. — Yan Leyfman was born in Belarus in 1989, three years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. His family lived only about 75 miles from the nuclear plant, and as a toddler, Mr. Leyfman had a constellation of mysterious symptoms: cysts that covered his...
by Nis Frome | Sep 13, 2015 | Chernobyl in the News
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Twelve times a month — the maximum number of shifts the doctors will allow — Sergei A. Krasikov takes a train across the no man’s land and reports for work at a structure enclosing Reactor No. 4 known as “the sarcophagus.” Lessons From Chernobyl...
by Nis Frome | Sep 13, 2015 | Chernobyl in the News
“The Chernobyl Nuclear accident was twenty years ago and while it has faded from most Americans’ minds, the health effects of it are still very much being felt. And this is true in Ukraine and Belarus and Western Russia, but it is also turning out to be...
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