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Chernobyl’s frogs are living long, healthy lives

Almost 40 years ago, reactor number four exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Since then, the surrounding area has become, to the surprise of many, one of Europe’s largest nature reserves. Over the last eight years, we have been working to find out how this infamous environmental disaster has…

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Sweden Tests Mushroom Foraging Culture For Chernobyl Fallout

Swedish Radiation Safety Authority enlists mushroom-pickers to study Chernobyl's impact on mushroom radioactivity in Sweden's forests.

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Mushrooms foraged in Sweden could help research Chernobyl radioactive fallout

Sweden’s strong foraging culture could help determine how much radioactive fallout remains in the Scandinavian country, 38 years after the Chernobyl nuclear explosion

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UN Nuclear Head Visits Russian Plant Near Fighting

UN nuclear watchdog head Rafael Grossi kicked off a visit Tuesday to "independently assess" conditions at Russia's Kursk nuclear plant following Ukraine's unprecedented cross-border offensive into the Russian region.

International Business Times

UN Nuclear Head To Visit Russian Plant Near Fighting

UN nuclear watchdog head Rafael Grossi is to visit Russia's Kursk nuclear plant on Tuesday to "independently assess" events following Ukraine's unprecedented cross-border offensive into the Russian region.

International Business Times

Stalker 2 developer deep-dive preview: 11 things you need to know

Dare you enter the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone?

Evening Standard

Man jailed after false ‘Chernobyl radiation test’ assaults on Scottish students

A MAN who indecently assaulted three people at a Scottish university while falsely claiming to be conducting radiation testing after the Chernobyl…

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Baby Birds Born In Chernobyl Have Weird Microbiomes But Are Surprisingly Healthy

New research indicates that nestlings in highly radioactive parts of the CEZ do experience subtle biological differences from those reared in clean areas.

Inverse

New York Times best-selling author revisits 1986 space shuttle tragedy in 'Challenger' (interview)

Adam Higginbotham was out with his first book when he got the idea. "People often asked me whether I remembered where I was when I heard the news about Chernobyl." He didn't, but recalled Challenger.

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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

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Evening Standard

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

Tube etiquette has reached new lows, says George Chesterton

The Conversation

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.

Daily Mirror

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

Evening Standard

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

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The Hindu

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.

Daily Mirror

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

Louder

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

The Week

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”.

Al Jazeera

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.

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"

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