Chernobyl

Shockwave has been imprisoned underneath Chernobyl for years and is now seeking revenge from his captors and enemies.

"No Chernobyl is possible at a light water reactor. Loss of coolant means a temperature rise, but it also will stop the reaction, " he said.

In the areas affected by the 1986 Chernobyl accident, a crippling sense of hopelessness set in and was passed down through generations.

If the Chernobyl crew had not staged their reckless experiments, there might have been no accident.

It would not travel nearly as far as the Chernobyl cloud because there is no mechanism to send it so high in the sky.

Initial measurements by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization had put the Fukushima figure at half that of Chernobyl.

Total radiation emissions have been a tenth of Chernobyl's so far, with no radiation-linked deaths.

"I never thought about Chernobyl until I got this news, " he said in a Kiev hospital as he awaited surgery.

Alone with his thoughts, a liquidator sits aboard a helicopter heading out on a mission to a cooling reservoir at the Chernobyl site.

Plants seem to tolerate the high radiation levels found in the soil near the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster.

Asked about the maximum possible amount of radioactive release, he said "it would be in the same range as Chernobyl" .

The Chernobyl disaster still has much to tell us about the long-term risks of low-level radiation exposure.

There is only a minuscule chance that Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will turn into a new Chernobyl.

Some people concluded, almost certainly wrongly, that Japan might be in the midst of a Chernobyl-type event.

In Chernobyl's case, the effect was more localized, since the radioactive release occurred on the ground.

But in terms of its geographical reach, Fukushima is still, thankfully, a long way behind Chernobyl.

In the wake of Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, I cannot argue that it's wrong to be concerned about the safety of nuclear plants.

All this machinery has participated in Chernobyl accident liquidation and is radioactive from top to toe.

Chernobyl is rated at level seven since it had a widespread impact on people and the environment.

But after accidents at Three-Mile Island and Chernobyl, local people began to take a not-in-my-back-yard attitude.

The WHO report Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident and Special Health Care Programmes is the result of this effort.

Not having sanction and not having built the required safety requirements did not stop them form initiating the Chernobyl reactor.

The disaster is one of Europe's worst environmental accidents since the explosion at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986.

We were in Ukraine, in Chernobyl. It was exactly the place where they later built the [infamous] nuclear power station.

The nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have been studied to ensure that they do not happen again.

International Conference "One Decade after Chernobyl: Summing up the Radiological Consequences of the Accident"

Recent investigations suggest a doubling of the incidence of leukaemia among the most highly exposed Chernobyl liquidators.

These are the elements that post the most risk in case of a nuclear catastrophe, and were some of the most harmful after Chernobyl.

Nuclear power plants should be built in cities - those who crave electricity must accept the risks of a Chernobyl or terrorist attack.

Daiichi is not synonymous with Chernobyl in terms of the severity of contamination.

Currently, the Chernobyl nuclear contaminated areas are still intact to retain the building after the destruction of the scene that year.

This was due to the high levels of radioactive iodine released from the Chernobyl reactor in the early days after the accident.

It is cesium-137 that still contaminates much of the land in Ukraine around the Chernobyl reactor.

These gauges are happy not to have been installed in Chernobyl nuclear powerplant.

The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant did much more than change the lives of hundred thousands of affected people.

Graffiti on a wall in the ghost city of Pripyat near the fourth nuclear reactor (background) at the former Chernobyl nuclear-power plant.

An vast area is still uninhabitable around the Chernobyl plant 25 years after that disaster.

The bottom line here is that Fukushima and Chernobyl are comparable, and a comparison really helps underscore the differences.

Like You'd Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to pitch-perfect life.

A month after the Chernobyl disaster, at least 23 reactor operators and firemen had died, mostly of radiation sickness.

The accident is now regarded as the largest nuclear disaster since the Chernobyl incident in 1986.

An accident has occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, damaging one of the reactors.

I have met the doctors and nurses in Belarus and Ukraine who are trying to keep children alive in the aftermath of Chernobyl.

Arsenic in drinking water thus constitutes the largest case of mass poisoning in history, dwarfing Chernobyl.

The March nuclear accident was the world's worst since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the former Soviet Union.

This does not threaten a radiological catastrophe on the scale of Chernobyl, experts say, but could still cause grave local pollution.

A near-meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979 was followed seven years later by an explosion at Chernobyl in Ukraine.

It's hard to distinguish Chernobyl-related health problems from a more general post-Soviet malaise, scientists said.

The Ukrainian people sincerely thank China for supporting Ukraine in eliminating the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident.

The cost of a new steel shelter for the Chernobyl nuclear plant will cost $2 billion alone.

Has the pendulum been made to swing too far the other way, by the very people who dismissed comparisons with Chernobyl only weeks ago?

And there is potentially three times as much material to contain in Fukushima as there was in Chernobyl.

No one is saying that the radioactive fallout from the fires could reach the magnitude of the Chernobyl disaster.

None of this amounts to "another Chernobyl. "

Chernobyl's current firefighting protection system includes watchtower lookouts triangulating wildfires sites by radio.

A monument commemorating the liquidators, erected near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station.

Note that Chernobyl did not have a containment structure as a barrier to the environment.

At Chernobyl in 1986, there was a large escape of nuclear fallout into the atmosphere.

Images of children being scanned with Geiger counters by suited safety officials evoke memories of the Chernobyl disaster.

It was not so fortunate at Chernobyl. That was a serious and ongoing tragedy.

For Chernobyl, we were told that there was nothing, which in fact there was.

Chernobyl may also cause cancers in Europe outside Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine.

Fukushima Daiichi is believed to have released about a 10th of the radioactive material the Soviet Union's Chernobyl facility did in 1986.

Chernobyl's death toll is highly uncertain, but may have reached a few thousand people.

Firefighters tackling woodland fires near Chernobyl lack monitoring as well as equipment.

Yet, by the harsh standards of natural disasters, Chernobyl was not especially catastrophic.

Read on to see how Chernobyl affected lives of 116, 000 people who were evacuated from the region.

Teng Jianqun last told reporters that the current view, then the Japanese will not be as extreme Chernobyl situation.

Chernobyl has demonstrated that the earth is too small a place for a nuclear accident to happen.

The Chernobyl meltdown also contaminated vast tracts of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and northern Europe with radioactive cesium.

In Chernobyl, 25 years after the nuclear accident, radiation is still detected in the surrounding forests, experts say.

TODAY marks the 25th anniversary of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant in northern Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union.

On the 25th anniversary of the explosion of the number four reactor at Chernobyl, the exclusion zone is not a dead zone.

To access Pripyat, Chernobyl, and the surrounding villages, however, visitors must obtain permission to visit the "exclusion zone. "

After Chernobyl, the International Atomic Energy Agency introduced tighter standards.

A local vet warned her it could have been caused by a nuclear fallout from the nearby Chernobyl reactor disaster.

Next month is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the explosion and fire that destroyed a reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine.

Some of the highest doses of radiation were sustained by the workers enlisted to clear debris from Chernobyl's rooftops.

Induced radioactivity and waste classification of reactor zone components of the chernobyl nuclear power plant unit 1 after final shutdown.

The older nearby town of Chernobyl, which gave its name to the plant, was relatively untouched by the disaster.

Chernobyl, Ukraine in the simple office of the Ministry of emergency situations, we see the wizard Andre, a white-bearded little old man.

The disaster's global psychological impact exceeded Chernobyl's, and left a world that's now unsure if nuclear electricity is the answer.

Thyroid cancer incidence among adolescents and adults in the bryansk region of Russia following the chernobyl accident.

Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) also stressed the difference between Chernobyl and Fukushima.

Twenty-five years after Chernobyl, the fear of radiation contamination can still spark panic, even when it's unfounded.

Veterans of the liquidators corps received medals from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on the eve of the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl.

The fires have also reached the Bryansk region, east of Chernobyl, the site of the nuclear power plant that exploded in 1986.

In Chernobyl only a small fraction of the population in the area received stable iodine, and they received it too late.

The health and death tolls from Chernobyl -- and the areas affected -- are still fiercely disputed, and estimates vary hugely.

Chernobyl, Bhopal, the Challenger, Vioxx, weapons of mass destruction, hanging chads.

Chernobyl, Bhopal, the Challenger, Vioxx, weapons of mass destruction, hanging chads.

The Chernobyl reactor used carbon to slow down neutrons, a key part of the fission reaction.

Recent research showed that birds living in the Chernobyl area have significantly smaller brains than normal.

With the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster upon us, find out why radiation contamination can spark panic.

Those who were affected came to be labelled as "Chernobyl victims" .

Our studies, together with Yale University, have shown it is imperative we take measures to control the radiation [in] Chernobyl's forests.

When and where will be the next Three Mile Island near-tragedy or the Chernobyl actual one?

What can our experience of the atomic bombs and Chernobyl tell us about the health effects of radiation exposure?

In all, the EU bloc was providing half the funds required for Chernobyl "shelter and safety" projects.

A flawed reactor design and inadequately trained workers caused the Chernobyl accident.

As visions of Chernobyl haunted his parents, Taylor tried to reassure them.

Chernobyl should not be used as a reason for halting all nuclear reactors.

The nuclear industry has had a fair safety record since Chernobyl.

The huge plume of smoke from Chernobyl spread radiation over most of Europe and forced evacuation within a 30-kilometre radius.

Actually, Chernobyl didn't USE a containment vessel at all, hence their ENTIRE problem.

The Chernobyl instruction manuals, like Fukushima's, also had large sections missing.

A comparison with what happened after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine might put the finding into perspective, however.

After the Chernobyl nuclear accident, sunflowers and rape blossoms were planted to purify the soil.

Hundreds of pieces of Russian army hardware is left on the small field right near to Chernobyl.

That the nuclear reactor burnt in Chernobyl brought Russian a crop of misfortunes.

On the 25th anniversary of the nuclear power plant accident at Chernobyl, the "ignorant and fearful" pay tribute.

That's a level that's been recorded only during the Chernobyl accident, the reports said.

Officials at the conference were optimistic more funds would still be found to make the Chernobyl site safe.

Chernobyl should never have been permitted to operate.

Chernobyl was, is and will be one of Ukraine's biggest problems.

Chernobyl spewed radiation for days, which rode wind currents worldwide.

But accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl have severely blunted public support.

The majority of illness stemming from the Chernobyl accident in 1986 resulted from contaminated dairy consumption.

Chernobyl is the infamous site of the worst nuclear disaster in history.

In Chernobyl, in the Ukraine, a reactor exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing a cloud of radiation over much of the Northern Hemisphere.

So how safe is it to put Chernobyl on your Eastern European itinerary?

The specter of huge environmental fallout on the scale of Chernobyl is unlikely, though.

Will the Chernobyl-type accident occur at the Daya Bay nuclear power stations?

After the Chernobyl blast residents in the 19-mile "zone of alienation" were evacuated within days of the disaster.

While the Chernobyl firefighters and others performed acts of heroism, the bosses of the Soviet state obfuscated.

For another, the legacy of Chernobyl will be remembered for much, much longer than anyone would wish.

The April 26, 1986 explosion at the Soviet nuclear power plant in Chernobyl -- rated a maximum 7 -- was the world's worst nuclear disaster.

Q. You write that people can now sign up for tours of Chernobyl. Any sense of how many people are doing it?

They think the second spike is due to the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in which the reactor exploded in the Ukraine.

The resulting partial meltdown and radiation leaks represented the world's most severe nuclear power accident since Chernobyl in 1986.

In West Germany, Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher urged Moscowto shut all nuclear-power plants similar to the one at Chernobyl.

If we were sitting on top a potential Chernobyl, we know we'd be working to get home as fast as humanly possible.

1986 - In Ukraine, a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant explodes, creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.

Long-term flux of Chernobyl-derived 137Cs from soil to French rivers: a study on sediment and biological indicators.

This is not just the direct result of Chernobyl.

Not many people would dare to reach the borders of the Chernobyl region surrounded by a barbed wire.

A similar reaction unfolded in the wake of the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine.

That is what happened around Chernobyl in Ukraine and even in parts of Belarus and Russia that were affected by the fallout.

He says the existing system was designed in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.

The roads connect Chernobyl and Pripyat with control posts.

The ranking had only been applied to the 1986 Chernobyl accident.

Soviet nuclear power plant disaster in Chernobyl.

The Chernobyl meltdown was hideous and traumatic.

A recent U. N. study estimates the Chernobyl disaster caused 6, 000 cases of thyroid cancer in children, largely through contaminated milk.

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster caused here to meet the nuclear radiation threat.

Later, the government declared the Fukushima incident to be on the same level of seriousness as the accident at Chernobyl 25 years ago.

Chernobyl cataract studies suggest that radiation opacities may occur from doses as low as 250 mSv.

The damage at the plant was caused by the March 11th earthquake and tsunami, leading to the world's worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.

Memories of the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986 were at the fore of many people's minds.

The industry's safety record since Chernobyl means there is a danger of complacency, says Philippe Jamet of the IAEA.

Modeling the dynamics of fish contamination by Chernobyl radiocaesium: an analytical solution based on potassium mass balance.

The Chernobyl disaster of 1986, here in the real world, has poisoned the land for years.

In all, 53 people died, a military base was destroyed and the fires reached land contaminated by the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

Many women and their children sought help from their doctors and were given diagnoses linked to their Chernobyl exposure.

For most exposures from the Chernobyl accident, absorbed doses are similar to effective doses (i. e. 1Gy is approximately equal to 1 Sv).

Chernobyl Unit 4 reactor against the April 26, 1986 explosion, a large number of strong leakage of radioactive material.

The Chernobyl reactor had two crucial design flaws.

Whether through luck or because of improving standards, the nuclear industry has had a better safety record since Chernobyl.

The Chernobyl plant now is a cracked hulk in the eerie "dead zone. "

Worm Wood Forest which is now called the Red Forest refers to the trees in the 10 km square surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Next month the world will mark the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl, the nuclear industry's worst disaster.

Historically, the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident is defined as the most serious level 7.

Pripyat, Ukraine was once a thriving city of 50, 000, but was abandoned following the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl.

The Chernobyl nuclear accident in the 555 000 Becquerel is the standard amount of radiation equivalent to one year to 5 mSv.

And personal habits such as smoking, drinking and diet further confound any effort to trace ills back to Chernobyl.

Occationally foodstuff (mostly fish) that is over the legal limit to sell still pops up here in my country due to Chernobyl.

Because this power plant was completed after the Chernobyl, they paid a special attention to secure it from alike accidents.

Towns like Prypyat about 1. 8 miles from Chernobyl that had a pre-disaster population of 50, 000, continue to remain abandoned.

Governments must also work to present a clear narrative about the health implications of accidents such as Chernobyl and Fukushima.

But the legacy of Chernobyl and other accidents has changed that.

Vast amounts of caesium-137 were distributed across 40 per cent of Europe's surface after Chernobyl.

They think the second spike is due to the 1986 Chernobyl disasterin which the reactor exploded in the Ukraine.

On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl's reactor No. 4 exploded spewing radiation over a large swath of northern Europe.

So what have we learnt from Chernobyl?

Only the Chernobyl accident 25 years ago ranked as high.

A 2005 study by United Nations agencies said a total of 4, 000 people could eventually die of radiation exposure from Chernobyl.

The plan is to build a 110-metre-high (360-foot) shell over Chernobyl's No 4 reactor, which blew up after a safety experiment went wrong.

Chernobyl now what? Safe secure this route in the end?

The Chernobyl disaster has been called the biggest socio-economic catastrophe in peacetime history.

Now it dies out under the open skies of deserted Chernobyl.

Until Tuesday, only Chernobyl was rated a 7.

In the spring and summer of 1986, 116 000 people were evacuated from the area surrounding the Chernobyl reactor to non-contaminated areas.

These are remains of an abandoned radar station Chernobyl-2.

The Three Mile Island accident of 1979 was rated 5; the Chernobyl disaster merited level 7.

Thirty years ago, before the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Slovic took four groups of people and asked them to rate 30 risks.

April 26, 1986, Ukraine Chernobyl reactor No. 4 exploded, killing 30 people were killed and more than 8 tons of leakage of strong radiation.

Despite these dangers, the specter of a scenario as bad as Chernobyl is unlikely in Japan, Dr. Kemper said.

Ukraine said Sunday it will formally open the zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to visitors in 2011, CNN reported.

Unlike the plant in Japan, the Chernobyl reactor was not housed in a sealed container to prevent the release of radiation.

He looked like he'd been to Chernobyl. He's -he's a mature bull, but look like he. . . has a radiation poisoning.

But, as of now, this four-day crisis in Japan already amounts to the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986.

But last month's magnitude 9. 0 earthquake and tsunami that sparked the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in Japan was different.

International Chernobyl Shelter Pledging Conference for Governments;

Joint plan of international cooperation to mitigate the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster;

Coordinator of International Cooperation for Chernobyl;

Svetlana Alexievich, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

International Programme on the Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident;

Quadripartite Committee for Coordination on Chernobyl;

Location of the Chernobyl nuclear power station and plant information

Forest fires around Chernobyl could release radiation, scientists warn

Potential risk of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station nowadays

Thyroid carcinomas induced by Chernobyl nuclear accident

Nuclear Cover Up: World's Largest Movable Structure to Seal the Wrecked Chernobyl Reactor

Fifteen Years after the Chernobyl Accident -- Lessons Learned;

Chernobyl Project - Images of the Invisible

The continuing effects of the chernobyl disaster

A 20th anniversary memorial retrospection of Chernobyl nuclear disaster

The RBMK-1000 reactor used in the Chernobyl nuclear power station

The biotic sample bank of Chernobyl nuclear accident

the nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl

Some say the situation is worse than Three Mile Island, but not as bad as Chernobyl;

Chernobyl Shuts Down for Good