A raging fire in the radioactive forest surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has raised alarms in Ukraine and is now threatening large deposits of radioactive waste from the 1986 nuclear disaster. The wildfires, which are consuming the polluted forests in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, are feared to be moving toward the abandoned trucks, vehicles, […]
Russian Nuke Monitors Went Dark After Mysterious Missile Explosion…
Adding to the uneasy parallels with the infamous Chernobyl incident, doctors at a Russian hospital complained on Sunday they were not informed that casualties from the explosion had been exposed to radiation. CTBTO chief Lassina Zerbo told the Wall Street Journal on Sunday that two days after the missile explosion, nuclear monitoring stations in Kirov […]
Worse Than Chernobyl: Parts of Marshall Islands Have Radiation ‘Higher’ Than Catastrophic ’86 Disaster…
A series of studies have concluded that the radiation levels in parts of the Marshall Islands, where nuclear weapons were tested more than 60 years ago, is “higher than Chernobyl.” The studies, published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, demonstrate that the concentration of nuclear isotopes on some of the […]
River of Radiation: Life in the Area of the World’s 3rd-Worst Nuclear Disaster…
Before Fukushima and Chernobyl, the worst-ever nuclear disaster was a massive leak from a plant in the eastern Urals. RT went to see how people live in areas affected by the fallout from the USSR’s risky rush to the nuclear bomb. Chernobyl and Fukushima are the two names that are most likely to come to […]
Despite Denials, Study Claims 2017’s Mysterious Radioactive Cloud Did Come from Russia…
Secrecy and Lies: Chernobyl and the U.S. Government…
The five-part series documents the catastrophic nuclear explosion that took place at a nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union in the 1980s, an event that threatened the lives and health of millions of people, not only in the Soviet Union but also in Europe. The series documents the heroic life-endangering efforts of thousands of […]
HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ Indicts Soviet Socialism. Establishment Reviews Downplay It…
HBO’s “Chernobyl” mini-series, depicting the world’s worst man-made nuclear disaster, concludes Monday night. The drama, co-produced by the British network Sky, is currently the all-time top rated TV show on IMDb. But the reviews suggest many in the establishment media have not learned the show’s obvious lesson about the dangers of Soviet-style socialism. To be […]
Three Decades After Nuclear Disaster, Chernobyl Goes Solar…
Ukraine unveiled a solar plant in Chernobyl on Friday, just across from where a power station, now encased in a giant sarcophagus, caused the world’s worst nuclear disaster three decades ago. Built in a contaminated area, which remains largely uninhabitable and where visitors are accompanied by guides carrying radiation meters, 3,800 panels produce energy to […]
Decades after Chernobyl Disaster, Engineers Slide High-Tech Shelter over Reactor…
On Wednesday, officials from all over the world gathered about a football field away from the Chernobyl disaster site in Ukraine. They were there to celebrate the final placement of a massive, high-tech shelter over reactor 4, which exploded in April 1986…
World’s Largest Solar Power Plant Planned for Chernobyl Nuclear Wasteland…
Ukraine’s ecology minister said the government was negotiating with two US investment firms and four Canadian energy companies, which have expressed interest in the Chernobyl’S…