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The Independent: The real Chornobyl Diaries

“My brother died from thyroid cancer”, says Olga, 31, as we walk together near her village on the outskirts of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. “I was …
The Independent

Chornobyl cleanup workers preparing for large-scale protests this autumn

On Tuesday, Kyiv hosted the first congress of Chornobyl cleanup workers, which was initiated by a number of Ukrainian non-governmental organizations, …
Interfax-Ukraine

Foreign fans take interest in excursions to Chornobyl area

According to the head of the information center at the official fan zone in Kyiv, Director of the Mysterious Kiev Agency Arseniy Finberh, some 10 to …
Interfax-Ukraine

Yanukovych invites Putin, Lukashenko to visit Chornobyl

“Vladimir Vladimirovich, I would like to make a proposal, it’s time for a state visit to Russia and Ukraine, there have been no such visits since …
Interfax-Ukraine

Eyewitness. Photos of Chornobyl by Oleksandr Salmygin.

 
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Years after Chornobyl disaster, its photographer lives in obscurity in Kyiv

After the April 26 nuclear explosion, taking hazardous-materials protective clothing off near Chornobyl meant sure death. Salmygin was one of the …
Daryna Shevchenko

Prypyat Memories

PRYPYAT, Ukraine – On April 26, 1986, I was a baby living in the city of Prypyat, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. The next day, my mother and …
Alina Rudya

Chornobyl Tour

I find myself standing in a ubiquitous town square surrounded on all sides by thick greenery the kind rarely seen this side of the Carpathians. To my …
Danylo Spolsky

US firm to build new storage site

Holtec International, a US energy con sultancy and contractor, has commenced work on a project to complete construction of a second nuclear waste …
Nazar Kudrevskyy

Ukraine lands record half-billion-dollar grant to seal up Chornobyl

Ukraine has received a halfbillion dollars in grants from international donors to finalize the closure of the infamous Chornobyl plant, site of the …
John Marone

Let the dust finally settle

It’s been almost seven years since Ukraine shut down the Chornobyl Nuclear Plant, the site of the world’s worst atomic catastrophe in 1986. But the …
Editorial

Chornobyl project put on hold

Despite delays, a massive containment arch over the existing Chornobyl shelter could be in commission by the end of 2010, as the years-long tender to …
Vlad Lavrov

Travel agencies cashing in on trips to Chornobyl

Wesley Dodd, a senior producer at the BBC`s Moscow Bureau, was very busy on April 25. He had to make sure his team was ready for a live broadcast from …
Yulianna Vilkos

Beyond the fallout

April 26 marked the 20th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the world’s worst, which put Ukraine in the international spotlight years …
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Alexander Kuzma: The heroes, survivors of Chornobyl

Captain Vasyl Kavatsiuk had been married just two weeks in April 1986, when he received orders for an unusual deployment. It was a beautiful spring …
Alexander Kuzma

Mary Mycio : Preserving the zone

The wild Przewalski’s horses were grazing on last year’s dried grass, dramatically framed by the Sarcophagus that has covered Chornobyl’s No. 4 …
Mary Mycio

Chernobyl: 14 years after the disaster

I don’t think I have I been to a quieter place, and the silence was eerie. No birds, nor traffic, nor all the industrial hums and screeches that we …
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