Chernobyl

WARSAW – It is a nightmare scenario: clouds of radioactive contamination spreading high into the atmosphere and sweeping hundreds of miles across Europe after munitions strike a nuclear reactor in Ukraine. As the world scrambles to respond to the environmental crisis, accusations of deliberate sabotage fly back and forth, setting…

Last Updated: August 18, 2022, 14:07 IST Zaporizhzhia Russia is directly targeting Ukraine's nuclear facilities in a strategy to undermine Ukrainian resistance. Anatolii Stepanov / AFP The tensions around the facility have sparked fears of another nuclear disaster in Europe like the one in Chernobyl in then Soviet Ukraine in…

Updated Aug. 14, 2022 5:10 pm ET The first sign of danger came when the dwindling crew of Ukrainian technicians running the Zaporizhzhia nuclear-power station noticed that officers from Russia’s state atomic energy company had left the premises without explanation. It was Aug. 5, and Russian soldiers were patrolling the…

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has warned of another nuclear disaster similar to that of Chernobyl in 1986. On Thursday, Zelensky called Russia a “terrorist state” that is holding the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant hostage. At Ukraine donor conference in Copenhagen, the leader said Russia is more dangerous than the Soviet…

The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station in Ukraine on June 12, 2008. Get the biggest business stories emailed to you every weekday or go to the Fin24 front page.The Russian-held Zaporizhzhia power plant in Ukraine, which is at the centre of international concern amid mutual accusations of shelling by Moscow and Kyiv, is Europe's biggest nuclear plant.…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine traded accusations Monday that each side is shelling Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine. Russia claimed that Ukrainian shelling caused a power surge and fire and forced staff to lower output from two reactors, while Ukraine has blamed Russian troops for…

Beta has pre-sold sprawling Finnish drama series “Estonia” to Germany’s broadcaster Seven.One Entertainment Group, the parent company of ProSieben. This acquisition marks the start of a collaboration between Beta and Seven.One Entertainment. The eight-hour drama, about the deadliest civil maritime disaster in recent European history, is now in its third…

Greenpeace has accused the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of downplaying the damage caused at Chernobyl, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The environmental organization conducted a survey of Chernobyl—the site of one of the worst nuclear disasters in history— following Russian occupation of the area to check what it…

By George Bass Nature has long since reclaimed buildings like this one in Prypyat Markiyan Kamysh Stalking the Atomic City Markiyan Kamysh Translated by Hanna Leliv and Reilly Costigan-Humes Pushkin Press BEFORE 26 April 1986, living near the Vladimir Lenin Nuclear Power Plant in the city of Chernobyl (nicknamed Atomic…