CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (Reuters) - The success of a U.S. television miniseries examining the world’s worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl has driven up the number of tourists wanting to see the plant and the ghostly abandoned town that neighbors it for themselves. Visitors stand outside the New Safe Confinement (NSC) structure over the old sarcophagus covering the damaged fourth reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Chernobyl, Ukraine June 2, 2019. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko One Chernobyl tour agency reported a 40% rise in trip bookings since the series, made by HBO, began in May and which has attracted outstanding reviews. English-language tours usually cost around $100 per person. Last April marked the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in then-Soviet Ukraine, caused by a botched safety test in the fourth reactor of the atomic plant that sent clouds of nuclear material across much of Europe. The HBO miniseries depicts the explosion’s aftermath, … [Read more...] about HBO show success drives Chernobyl tourism boom
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Children affected by Chernobyl disaster arrive in town
PUBLISHED: 16:33 31 May 2019 | UPDATED: 16:45 31 May 2019 Greta Levy Last year's group on their arrival at Gatwick airport. Picture: Contributed by Alison Stannard Archant Children who have been affected by the Chernobyl disaster will arrive in the town to experience the region and take a breath of fresh air. A general view of Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant. AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky/FileA group of 10 children - seven girls and three boys - all aged between nine and 11 will arrive in Suffolk from Belarus on Sunday (June 2) to experience what it is like to live in the UK. The children are staying with host families in Beccles, Loddon as well as Lowestoft and are here for four weeks. During this time, they will have a full programme of activities and will visit local attractions. Alison Stannard, from the Chernobyl Childrens Life line (CCLL) Chet and Waveney, said: "It is a measure of how desperate parents are to give children this health-giving … [Read more...] about Children affected by Chernobyl disaster arrive in town
HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ captures horror of nuclear disaster
By Mark Perigard | [email protected] | Boston HeraldPUBLISHED: May 5, 2019 at 12:36 am | UPDATED: May 5, 2019 at 7:01 am TELEVISION REVIEW “CHERNOBYL” Miniseries premiere Monday at 9 p.m. on HBO. Grade: B+ “Chernobyl” walks you into the heart of hell. The five-part miniseries debuting Monday on HBO dramatizes the April 26, 1986, explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine. Under director Johan Renck’s (“Breaking Bad”) insightful eye and based on extensive, exhaustive original research by creator, executive producer and writer Craig Mazin (“The Huntsman: Winter’s War”), what emerges is a harrowing clash between thick-headed bureaucrats and a brave few who recognized the deadly threat. After a brief prologue in 1988 that sets a dark mood indeed, the series drops back two years earlier to the night of the blast, to firefighter Vasily (Adam Nagaitis, “The Terror”) and wife Lyudmilla … [Read more...] about HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ captures horror of nuclear disaster
Recovering Lost Photos of Life Before the Chernobyl Disaster
Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Subscribe Log In Subscribe Log In Today's Paper Advertisement Lens Supported by Lens Maxim Dondyuk is preserving evidence of people’s lives in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, before the nuclear explosion turned their communities into ghost towns. ByMatthew Sedacca July 31, 2018 Chernobyl. The name evokes the chilling imagery of a ravaged nuclear reactor, tens of thousands of displaced Soviets fleeing radiation-contaminated homes, the ghostly overgrown landscape today. But that is not what the Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk has sought out during his exhaustive trips to the Chernobyl exclusion zone over the past few years. Before the nuclear disaster in 1986 made 1,000 square miles of land uninhabitable to humans for thousands of years to come, Ukrainian families lived in cities and villages within the region, some for many generations. They attended school, went … [Read more...] about Recovering Lost Photos of Life Before the Chernobyl Disaster
Russia says its sea-based nuclear power plant is safe. Critics call it a ‘Floating Chernobyl.’
Democracy Dies in Darkness Sections Home Try 1 month for $1 Username Sign In Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Subscribe Account Profile Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Accessibility for screenreader WorldViews by Cleve R. Wootson Jr. by Cleve R. Wootson Jr. Email the author May 1 at 5:35 PM Email the author If a Russian state-owned company has its way, remote regions of the world will soon see giant, floating nuclear reactors pumping power to port cities and drilling platforms in a real-life version of the Soviet reversal joke: In Russia, 70-megawatt nuclear reactor comes to you. The reactor in question is called Akademik Lomonosov. Once the barge is wired into the electrical grid in the northern town of Pevek in 2019, it will be the world's northernmost nuclear reactor, capable of powering a town of 100,000 … [Read more...] about Russia says its sea-based nuclear power plant is safe. Critics call it a ‘Floating Chernobyl.’