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UA.TV: Ukraine commemorates 30 years of Chornobyl tragedy (VIDEO)

The brave men and women who worked to contain the Chornobyl disaster were honoured recently. 30 years ago, they completed the first sarcophagus over …
UA.TV

Poroshenko: Chornobyl zone turning into territory of change

Over the past few years the exclusion zone around the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in the Kyiv region has been transforming into a place for the …
Interfax-Ukraine

UA.TV: Exposition near Chornobyl nuclear power station (VIDEO)

A new interactive art exposition has opened near the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It’s all part of an international intiative to combat manipulation …
UA.TV

The Guardian: Serhii Plokhy says ‘Chornobyl exposed Soviet secrecy’

Serhii Plokhy, who on Nov. 14 won the Baillie Gifford non-fiction prize for Chornobyl: History of a Tragedy, always intended to write about the …
The Guardian

Associated Press: Serhii Plokhy wins nonfiction book prize for Chornobyl story

A book about the causes and consequences of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster has won Britain’s leading nonfiction literary award. Read more here.
Associated Press

Belarusian-Ukrainian border demarcation in Chornobyl zone to begin in February

MINSK – Belarus and Ukraine have agreed to begin demarcating their border in the Chernobyl zone in February, the Belarusian State Border Committee …
Interfax-Ukraine

RFE/RL: Deep inside Chornobyl’s radioactive ruins (VIDEO)

RFE/RL Ukrainian Service correspondent Yevhen Solonyna ventured inside Chornobyl’s radioactive ruins.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

UA.TV: Clean energy from Chornobyl disaster site (VIDEO)

The Chornobyl exclusion zone has received first private investments. They were used for building a solar power plant.
UA.TV

BBC: Solar panels unveiled at Chornobyl nuclear power site (PHOTOS)

Ukraine launches its first solar plant in the abandoned area around the former nuclear power station. See the photos here.
BBC

Reuters: Three decades after nuclear disaster, Chornobyl goes solar

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine – Ukraine unveiled a solar plant in Chornobyl on Oct. 5, just across from where a power station, now encased in a giant …
Reuters

Eurasianet: Eco-protestors target proposed shipping route through Ukraine and Poland

Swarms of mosquitoes and plump, shiny flies rise from the undergrowth as a group of protesters drag their canoes onto the low banks of the Pripyat …
Eurasianet.org

Anton Filatov: Pushing outside of the radioactive comfort zone in new movie about Chornobyl

The distribution of Volodymyr Tykhyy’s “Brama” has started in the movie theatres. It is a mystical drama about Ukrainians who are not able to escape …
Anton Filatov

UNIAN: Chornobyl nuclear power plant’s head resigns over dispute with ecology ministry

General Director of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Ihor Hramotkin has submitted his resignation because of disagreements with the Ministry of …
UNIAN

Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant director resigns over disagreements with ecology ministry

General Director of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Ihor Hramotkin has tendered his resignation because of a conflict with the leadership of …
Interfax-Ukraine

The Independent: Study finds Ukrainian cow milk has ‘5 times safe level of radioactivity’

Experts warn dangerous contamination will continue until at least 2040 without action. Read more here.
The Independent

112.ua: Radiation background in Kyiv, Chornobyl falls within norm

The radiation background in Kyiv remains within normal limits, as the press office of the State Scientific and Technical Center for Nuclear and …
112.ua

State Emergency Service: Wildfire being extinguished in Chornobyl NPP exclusion zone, situation under control

Isolated wildfires were being extinguished on about 3 hectares in the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s exclusion zone in Kyiv region as of 10:30 on …
Interfax-Ukraine

Border service agents prevent 3 ‘stalkers’ from entering Chornobyl exclusion zone

Agents from Ukraine’s State Border Guard Service have prevented three so-called “stalkers,” two Ukrainians and a Russian, from entering the Chornobyl …
Interfax-Ukraine
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