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The Chernobyl Zone is an energy drug

Stalkers are people who are engaged in industrial tourism, exploring abandoned buildings and entire ghost towns. Their name came after the film “Stalker”,

The first among the first: doctors at the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl accident

Few people among the current employees of the ChNPP can name the 30 first victims of the Chernobyl disaster. Their names are carved

Court at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant: they became culprits…

Firefighters, military men and scientists became heroes-liquidators in the post-accident period. The media were happy to tell about cooks, students and singers who

The Chernobyl NPP – the truth will out: what Paton wrote to Shcherbitsky

Today, more than 35 years separate us from the Chernobyl disaster. It seemed that the further the tragic events of 1986 would recede

Pripyat: what, where and when?

Cities are almost like people. Sometimes they have an exact date of birth. However, they rarely have a date of death. Some of

“Living with a clear conscience”: Boris Paton and his work at the Chernobyl NPP

On August 19, 2020, at the age of 101, Boris Evgenievich Paton passed away. For history, he will forever remain the Hero of

Nuclear and Radiation Waste: Prospects and Futility

The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant led to the largest ever release of radioactive materials into the atmosphere. Since then, solving

A brief history of the Chernobyl NPP: from an industrial giant to a sarcophagus

Rigorous protection, a long corridor, a gloomy concrete building where the dramatic events of a failed experiment unfolded. The Chernobyl disaster happened here.

Ukraine: a disposal of nuclear waste or an ecological horror story?

Many people are probably familiar with one of the most persistent Ukrainian “environmental horror stories”. Its essence is that our state can become

Charitable foundations work: “The future, which, perhaps, never existed”

According to the latest data, many more children died as a result of the Chernobyl disaster than previously thought. It is the time