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2021-01-20 15:25:21 Human life is connected with the constant generation of all kinds of waste. This is not only spent fuel, but also deteriorated household appliances, scrap metal, and even wastewater. People do not even suspect how toxic an ordinary rusty pipe, lying around for years near their home, can be toxic. Let’s understand where the radioactive wastes come from, and what kind of threat they pose... https://en.chernobylhistory.com/chernobyl-radiation-waste/ Open / Comment

2020-12-19 18:27:31 The Vector radioactive waste storage complex is located 17 kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Its capacities are sufficient to ensure the decontamination process and subsequent storage of radioactive fuel waste concentrated in the territory of the exclusion zone itself... https://en.chernobylhistory.com/the-vektor-complex-in-chernobyl/ Open / Comment

2020-11-22 00:44:31 Until recently, Chernobyl and Pripyat would have hardly been called tourist cities. A few years ago, this could not even have occurred. They, like leprosy, went around and walked around the tenth road.

Why today it has become possible, and why, thirty-three years after the disaster, tourism for the Chernobyl NPP is its future. To do this, you need to go through this unusual route, talk with people, see Pripyat, or rather, what has left of it. You should meet with guides and stalkers, look inside the destroyed reactor, feel the internal psychological discomfort from the fluctuation of the radiation storage... https://en.chernobylhistory.com/chernobyl-today/ Open / Comment

2020-11-22 00:43:45 The USSR has long gone into the history. Over 70 years of its existence, it left various memories in the consciousness of Soviet citizens, of which the victory in the Second World War, the flight of the first man into space, and the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant remain to this day.

Each of these events is a whole era. Time, events, circumstances make us move forward, leaving behind historical and life experience. The universal task is to draw the appropriate lessons from our own history, first of all from those events in which human life is the price... https://en.chernobylhistory.com/chernobyl-the-story-of-the-big-explosions/ Open / Comment

2020-08-30 12:43:15 One simple person lives for himself. He is no different from the rest – study, work, family. Once he chose the profession of a fireman for himself, it`s a very masculine and very difficult job... https://en.chernobylhistory.com/chernobyl-how-they-became-heroes/ Open / Comment

2020-07-08 16:20:04 As you know, miners were among those who worked to eliminate the consequences of the Chernobyl tragedy. They built a horizontal tunnel together with the installers, laying it directly to the base of the fourth power unit... https://en.chernobylhistory.com/chernobyl-miners-under-the-reactor/ Open / Comment

2020-06-24 13:51:28 It`s surely that many people know about the MI-8 helicopter crashed in the sky over the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, these shots circled the whole world at one time... https://en.chernobylhistory.com/chernobyl-last-mi-8-flight/ Open / Comment

2020-05-21 11:54:17 Acute radiation sickness is believed to be a sentence. It is not always so. There is its easy form. Several operators of the fourth power unit, who suffered from radiation sickness, are still alive. Of course, they were treated, some were very seriously... https://en.chernobylhistory.com/generation-of-chernobyl-radiation-sickness-part-ii/ Open / Comment

2020-05-12 17:45:54 There are four nuclear power plants in Ukraine today. The vast majority of them are a legacy from the time of the USSR: Zaporizhzhya, Rivne, Khmelnitsky and South Ukrainian nuclear power plants include 15 power units... https://en.chernobylhistory.com/is-new-chernobyl-possible/ Open / Comment

2020-05-08 21:14:19 The Washington Post claims on its pages that the current hybrid war is the geopolitical consequences of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine... https://en.chernobylhistory.com/chernobyl-the-731th-battalion/ Open / Comment