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Scientists Reveal World’s Most Dangerous Object: 300 Seconds With “Elephant’s Foot” Was Fatal

The black lava oozing directly from the core of the reactor put out enough radiation to give a lethal dose in just 300 seconds. The post Scientists Reveal World’s Most Dangerous Object: 300 Seconds With “Elephant’s Foot” Was Fatal first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Wolves in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone show increased resilience to cancer

A new study reveals that wolves in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone have become more resilient to cancer due to their adaptation to high levels of radiation.

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‘At this point it’s not just a game’: the making of Ukrainian RPG Stalker 2 – during wartime

Based in Kyiv until the Russian invasion – and still mourning colleagues who went to the frontline – the makers of long-awaited apocalyptic survival game Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl describe how their lives began imitating their art

The Guardian - UK

Adam Sandler’s astronaut encounters Paul Dano's creepy alien in trailer for new Netflix sci-fi film from Chernobyl director

Spaceman also stars Carey Mulligan

Total Film

OPINION - Not wearing headphones on the Tube is a sign of the apocalypse

Tube etiquette has reached new lows, says George Chesterton

Evening Standard

Decontaminating Fukushima: have the billions spent been worth it?

The Chernobyl and (to a lesser extent) Fukushima nuclear accidents contaminated large areas of land with low-level radioactivity. After both accidents, huge efforts were taken to decontaminate the affected areas.

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Ghostly figure spotted lurking at Chernobyl's abandoned fairground goes viral

An eerie clip of an abandoned fairground in Chernobyl, Ukraine, has gone viral online after a TikTok user spotted a mysterious figure lurking around on Google Maps

Daily Mirror

What is dark tourism and why are we drawn to morbid death sites?

Lancashire’s Pendle witches is one site attracting visitors in the UK

Evening Standard

What are the risks faced by Zaporizhzhya, the nuclear power plant in a war zone?

In June, a Lithuania-based NGO named the Bellona Foundation published a report, authored by its nuclear advisor, Dmitry Gorchakov, analysing the risks associated with the hostilities around, near, or at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant based on the facility’s design, safety measures, and the local weather.

The Hindu

Inside eerie abandoned resort dubbed 'Chernobyl' on popular holiday island

Millions of tourists once headed to the popular Ten Bel holiday resort on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, but it has now been abandoned for many years with images showing dilapidated buildings

Daily Mirror

Sigur Rós release video for Blóðberg, first new song in seven years

The 10-minute video for Sigur Rós's bleak Blóðberg was directed by Chernobyl director Johan Renck

Louder

Nova Kakhovka dam breach labelled ‘worst ecological disaster since Chernobyl’

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has descibed the breach of Ukraine’s Nova Kakhovka dam as “an environmental bomb of mass destruction”, amid warnings of the most ecologically damaging disaster “since Chernobyl”.

The Week

Oliver Stone: How he stopped worrying and learned to love nuclear

Film director says risk of nuclear contamination from Ukraine war is less threatening to the planet than fossil fuels.

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The Guardian - UK

The Days review – this nuclear disaster drama is no Chernobyl

Netflix’s recreation of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is disappointingly insight free. It’s obsessed with facts to the point where it neglects both character and story

Daily Mirror

'We work at Europe's biggest nuke plant and fear new Chernobyl under Russians'

Russia gained control of Zaporizhzhia - Ukraine's large nuclear power plant - in March 2022 and since then, engineers have become increasingly concerned a catastrophe is "waiting to happen"

Daily Record

Resident living on 'Scots Chernobyl' site 'won't leave' despite plans to bulldoze scheme

Marshal Craig, 70, still lives in Clune Park, which was abandoned by other residents in 1997.

Daily Mirror

'I live in UK's 'Chernobyl' the council wants to tear down but I'll never leave'

Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde, is known as the British Chernobyl and now housing just four residents who refuse to leave their homes, despite council pressure

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Daily Mirror

Chernobyl survivors describe horror symptoms they are STILL suffering 37 years later

Mykhaylo Khrushchenko was 34 and working as the director of the food processing manufacture that served Chernobyl, Ukraine, in 1986 when his life changed forever

Daily Mirror

Ukrainians captured defending Chernobyl nuclear plant starving in Russian prison

After a fierce firefight, Russian troops seized Chernobyl from the hands of Ukraine's National Guard on day one of the war at the end of February before taking over the 19-mile perimeter of the plant for over a month and bunking on the grounds

The Independent UK

What really happened at Chernobyl? How the world’s worst nuclear accident happened

Decades after the catastrophe, now a byword for state secrecy, crucial elements remain a mystery, Andy Gregory writes

The Independent UK

What really happened at Chernobyl? How the world’s worst nuclear accident happened

Decades after the catastrophe, now a byword for state secrecy, crucial elements remain a mystery, Andy Gregory writes

The Independent UK

Russian forces suffer radiation sickness after digging trenches and fishing in Chernobyl

Russian troops ‘set up camp, fished and dug defensive positions six miles from power plant’

The Independent UK

Russian forces suffer radiation sickness after digging trenches and fishing in Chernobyl

Russian troops ‘set up camp, fished and dug defensive positions six miles from power plant’

Daily Mirror

Russian troops 'too thick' to realise they would get sick from tainted Chernobyl forest

On April 26, 1986, the world's worst ever nuclear disaster was unleashed after Chernobyl's Reactor Number Four exploded - dispersing deadly radioactive material into the atmosphere and surrounding area

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