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04.09 2009
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The mystery of Chernobyl

A bitter dispute is raging over whether the fallout zone is a wasteland or wonderland. Now, a team of scientists is heading back into the contaminated area to find out the truth.
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19.05 2009
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Do Not Break The Nucleus

Twenty three years ago, in the early hours of 26th April, 1986 (precisely at 01.24 a.m.), the world witnessed one of its worst nuclear disasters. Reactor number 4 of Chernobyl power station, situated near Pripyat in Ukraine , exploded. Two explosions blew off the dome shaped roof of the reactor, causing its contents to erupt out. As air was sucked into the shattered reactor, it ignited the flammable carbon monoxide, resulting in a fire that raged for nine days. As the reactor was not housed in a reinforced concrete shield, large amounts of debris escaped in the atmosphere.
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27.04 2009
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Chernobyl: 23 years later

Twenty-three years ago on April 26, 1986 at 1:23 in the morning, the number four reactor at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl suffered an unstoppable chain reaction, causing the worst man-made disaster in history. During a low-power test, uranium fuel in the reactor overheated, and melted through protective barriers causing first an explosion which blew open the reactor, then allowed radioactive elements such as plutonium, iodine, strontium, and cesium to spread across Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and parts of western Europe.
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18.03 2009
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Chernobyl 'shows insect decline'

Two decades after the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, radiation is still causing a reduction in the numbers of insects and spiders.
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18.03 2009
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Study: Chernobyl animals worse affected than thought

Radiation has affected animals living near the site of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear disaster far more than was previously thought, a study showed on Wednesday, challenging beliefs that local wildlife was on the rebound.
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16.01 2009
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Yevgen (KRANZ) Goncharenko: Pripyat. Winter Fairy Tales.

About two years ago Sasha Sirota, the permanent head of public organization and the site pripyat.com, made up his mind to make photographs of the abandoned apartments in Pripyat, at the desire of their former owners. Pripayters have approved the idea and...
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29.12 2008
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History does not know the words «too late»

President of Ukraine Decree № 1156/2008 «Про відзначення державними нагородами України з нагоди Дня вшанування учасників ліквідації наслідків аварії на Чорнобильській АЕС». A number of workers of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant awarded the Order «For Courage» of third degree for their courage, dedication, professionalism demonstrated during the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster, received a lethal radiation dose, performing work on localization of the accident in the early hours after its occurrence.
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