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New York Times: Viktor Bryukhanov, blamed for the Chornobyl disaster, dies at 85

Viktor Bryukhanov, who helped build and manage the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, where a reactor explosion in 1986 released a radioactive …
New York Times

The Times: Chornobyl schnapps leaves you with a warm glow

There are apple and cider notes. There is a floral bouquet. And could that be just a soupcon, just the slightest hint, of strontium? Read more here.
The Times

UA.TV: News Oct. 11, 2021

Editor’s Note: Below are the most important news from Ukraine and its neighboring countries on Oct. 11 prepared by UA.TV reporters. EU Council imposed …
UA.TV

State Property Fund offers cheap rental in Chornobyl to revive exclusion zone

Renting out a 700-square meter building for $11 per month is an unbelievable bargain, even in Ukraine, where rents are cheaper than in Western …
Natalia Datskevych

Reuters: 3 decades on, German mushrooms still show imprint of Chornobyl

Around 95% of wild mushroom samples collected in Germany in the last six years still showed radioactive contamination from the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear …
Reuters

HURI: COVID-19 is China’s Chornobyl moment

Mark Twain once said history never repeats, but it often rhymes. So it proved 30 years after Chornobyl with the first cases of Covid-19. In China, …
Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University

RFE/RL: A western Russian town still lives with Chornobyl’s fallout

The impact of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 was felt not only in Soviet Ukraine, but also in parts of Belarus and western Russia. The town of …
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

UkrInform: 32,000 tourists have visited Chornobyl Exclusion Zone this year

Thirty-two thousand tourists have already visited the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone this year. Read more here.
UkrInform

Paul Goble: Chornobyl accident raised Ukraine’s diplomatic profile at the UN

The Chornobyl accident in 1986 changed many things for Ukraine, but one of the most important if not often mentioned is the way in which it elevated …
Paul A. Goble

Some 32,000 tourists visit Chornobyl since year start

Some 32,000 tourists have visited the Chornobyl exclusion zone since the beginning of the year, assistant director of the state enterprise Center for …
Interfax-Ukraine

UA.TV: Developing tourism in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone

The Chornobyl exclusion zone is a tourist magnet of Ukraine. The state is going to develop tourism in this direction within the framework of public …
UA.TV

Worldcrunch: Destination Chornobyl? Radioactivity, jobs and tourism

KYIV — What is perhaps the best-known — and certainly, the most dangerous — place in Ukraine is referred to as the “Chornobyl Exclusion Zone.” And …
Worldcrunch

New York Times: Dramatizing the Chornobyl disaster, for its survivors

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — In April 1986, Alexander Rodnyansky was a young documentary filmmaker living in Kyiv. When the fourth reactor of the Chornobyl …
New York Times

Ukrzaliznytsia: Rail tracks to Chornobyl NPP ready for operation, first test train passes

The railway tracks in the exclusion zone of Chornobyl NPP are ready for transportation of spent nuclear fuel, the first test train passed through the …
Interfax-Ukraine

Ministry: Bontrup plans to invest 50 million euros in energy projects in Chornobyl zone

The Dutch company Bontrup plans at the first stage to invest 50 million euros in energy projects in the Chornobyl exclusion zone as part of the …
Interfax-Ukraine

Paul Goble: Officials in Russian areas contaminated by Chornobyl playing down dangers

Three Higher School of Economics sociologists interviewed 39 residents of two Russian villages that were contaminated by the Chornobyl nuclear …
Paul A. Goble

Rebecca Harms: Chornobyl is a disaster that still overwhelms us all

It was in October 1988, two and a half years after the disaster in Reactor Block 4 of the Chornobyl Soviet nuclear power plant (NPP), that I traveled …
Rebecca Harms

Ukrainians vs. HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ hit series

U.S. pay television network HBO may have violated Ukraine’s law during the production of its award-winning “Chernobyl” miniseries. Several Ukrainian …
Daria Shulzhenko
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