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The guards caring for Chernobyl's abandoned dogs
The descendants of pets abandoned by those fleeing the Chernobyl disaster are now striking up a curious relationship with humans charged with guarding the contaminated area.
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Chernobyl's Air Is Now 47 Percent Less Radiated With Novel Technology
A novel technology by the Swiss company Exlterra could decontaminate Chernobyl's radioactivity in five years instead of 24 thousand.
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Chernobyl's Molten Guts Are Warming Up, And Scientists Don't Know Why
Slow rise in neutrons stirs concerns about possible “criticality” accident
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Chernobyl Nuclear Area Became an Ecological Success and One of Europe’s Largest Nature Preserves
Widely hailed as the worst nuclear accident to ever occur, the 1986 Chernobyl disaster happened during a safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in what was then Soviet Ukraine.
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Chernobyl alcohol drink seized by authorities
The first batch of a spirit made with ingredients grown in the Chernobyl exclusion zone is seized.
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Study finds no excess germline mutations in children of Chernobyl survivors
A new study finds children whose parents were exposed to radiation at Chernobyl had no more germline mutations than normal.
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Chernobyl fears resurface as river dredging begins in exclusion zone
Scientists warn of threat of nuclear contamination from work on giant E40 waterway linking Baltic to the Black Sea
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Chernobyl fire under control, officials say
Firefighters are tackling remaining "hot spots" near the abandoned nuclear plant, officials say.
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Ukraine continues to battle forest fire near Chernobyl
Emergency teams in Ukraine on Monday continued battling a forest fire in the contaminated area around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant that has raised radiation fears. Two blazes erupted Saturday in the zone around Chernobyl that was sealed after the 1986 explosion at the plant.
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You Should Know About This Chernobyl Fungus That Eats Radiation
Scientists have discovered that a longtime fungal resident of the Chernobyl complex could actually “eat” radiation. In an upcoming paper, scientists will share the results of growing the fungus on the International Space Station. Scientists have known about this fungus, and similar extremophile organisms that can thrive on radiation, since at least 2007. The variety found in Chernobyl “can decompose radioactive material such as the hot graphite in the remains of the Chernobyl reactor,” Nature said in 2007.
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Lyudmila from Chernobyl speaks for first time
The 'real' Lyudmila Ignatenko from the HBO/Sky Chernobyl series speaks for the first time about her life during and after the nuclear disaster.
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Chernobyl 'Hero' : Dr. Gale--Medical Maverick
Since his first official house call to the Soviet Union in the spring of 1986, Dr. Robert Peter Gale, the 42-year-old UCLA bone-marrow transplant specialist, has become nothing short of an international celebrity.
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Emmys: 'Chernobyl' Wins Best Writing for Limited Series
Mazin praised series director Johan Renck, who won for best directing in a limited series during Sunday night's ceremony.
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Meet the Icelandic Composer Who Wrote Haunting Scores for ‘Chernobyl’ and ‘Joker’ at the Same Time
“Chernobyl” was the surprise drama of the season, which benefited greatly from the unique score by Icelandic cellist/composer Hildur Gudnadóttir, who earned one of the 19 Emmy nominations picked up by the HBO miniseries created by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck. Comprised of actual sounds recorded by the composer in the decommissioned Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in Visaginas, Lithuania, prior to the shoot, the result was an eerie score that captured the creepy horror of the Soviet nuclear disaster and its aftermath.
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This new vodka is produced in Chernobyl
The first product ever made there in 33 years.
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Chernobyl vodka made in exclusion zone
Atomik is made with grain and water from the abandoned area around the damaged nuclear power plant.
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The true toll of the Chernobyl disaster
Covered up by a secretive Soviet Union at the time, the true number of deaths and illnesses caused by the nuclear accident are only now becoming clear.
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How plants reclaimed Chernobyl's poisoned land
Trees and other kinds of vegetation have proven to be remarkably resilient to the intense radiation around the nuclear disaster zone.
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Cuba’s generosity after Chernobyl
Letters: Havana treated victims of the catastrophe for free, writes Doreen Weppler-Grogan
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How The Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Meltdown Formed World's Most Dangerous Lava Flow
In April 1986, Reactor 4 of the Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin Atomic Power Station near the city of Chernobyl experiences a catastrophic core meltdown. The radioactive lava that formed was named Corium and it's still there.
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