Exactly 37 years ago there was a terrible disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Former engineer of the fourth power unit, Aleksey Breus, spoke about his work at the station in the first days after the accident, Hromadske reports. Alexey Breus came to work at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in…
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant, captured by Russian troops on the first day of the war, was cut off on March 9 due to an accident on a power line, Ukrenergo and the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine said, Meduza reports. The Ukrainian state nuclear company Energoatom said that the storage facility at...
In March 2020, Mark O'Connell spoke specifically for the New York Times about a trip to the Chernobyl exclusion zone, which took place even before the coronavirus pandemic. Today, April 26, on the 35th anniversary of the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, we publish fragments of his history from the first ...
Maria, 21, is the only child born and raised in the critically contaminated exclusion zone following the Chernobyl disaster. The girl was born and stayed in the zone because the authorities denied her parents the right to get another place to live. Many people call ...
Classic Soviet room: desk, carpet on the wall, posters of Tsoi and Vysotsky, rotary telephone and table lamp. Everything is like in the mid-1980s, a ready-made interior for a work by the Strugatsky brothers. But outside the window of this room is Pripyat. The city has been dead for more than 30 years,…
The Alpina Non-Fiction Publishing House has published a book by British journalist Adam Higginbotham “Chernobyl. The history of the disaster ”(translator Andrey Bugaysky). Higginbotam tells in detail - in some cases, literally minute by minute - about the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986 and its consequences. Author…
Chernobyl... A tragedy occurred here, which has no analogues in the world. A tragedy that destroyed entire cities and changed millions of destinies. A tragedy we didn't know about. After the success of the HBO series Chernobyl, the whole world was talking about the disaster again 33 years later, and...
The US National Security Archive has published a report by the Bureau of Intelligence and Research on the accident at the fourth unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. According to RTVi, the documents were published on the repository's website on August 15. The report was sent to Secretary of State George Schultz on May 2, 1986. The addressee of the report was the diplomat Morton Abramovitz, ...
An unofficial trailer for the Russian TV series “Chernobyl” has been posted on YouTube. And almost immediately it was removed due to the uproar. Unlike the HBO series of the same name, the main storyline in it was the confrontation between an American spy and a Soviet counterintelligence agent. The trailer appeared on Youtube on July 24.…
In Kazakhstan, after watching the HBO series “Chernobyl,” one of the liquidators of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant committed suicide. A resident of the city of Aktobe, 61-year-old Nagashibay Zhusupov, after watching the series, remembered those terrible days and that the authorities forgot about...