Universal Solider 2 Oct 10, 2009
The story is a simple one - terrorists kidnap a couple of kids and occupy the Chernobyl Nuclear Complex, surrounding the reactor with explosives and threatening to set them off unless their demands for hostage release are met. They also happen to have a second generation 'Universal Soldier' under their control, a hulking monster of a man played by Ultimate Fighter Andrei 'The Pitbull' Arlovski. (IGN FilmForce)
Genetic Effects Of Radiation: Study Will Help Understand Radiation Exposure In Cancer Survivors And Their Children Oct 9, 2009
This research also will help families in Hiroshima and Chernobyl where residents were exposed to high levels of radiation as children and young adults. In addition to the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, seven top cancer research centers worldwide are participating in the study. (Science Daily)
* Classical music Oct 4, 2009
The Chernobyl disaster had happened two months before this was recorded, he says, and Haydns masterpiece reminds us like nothing else of the beauty and wonder of a world were on the brink of destroying. The DVD ends with the mournful tolling of bells, presumably in memory of Chernobyls victims, past and to come. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Milkologists win silly science awards Oct 2, 2009
It sounds silly, but Bodnar, a Ukraine native who now lives in Chicago, started her medical career studying the effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster. If people had had cheap, readily available gas masks in the first hours after the disaster, she said, they may have avoided breathing in iodine-131, which causes radiation sickness. (MSNBC -- Environment)
Iran Talks Conclude with Cautious Optimism Oct 2, 2009
GENTHOD, Switzerland , Oct. 1, 2009. Iran Will Grant Quick Access to International Weapons Inspectors; Further Meetings Seen as a Good Sign. (CBS News)
Who are the real wimps? Sep 20, 2009
In short, the French stayed the course on clean nuclear power, despite Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and we ran for cover. How about Denmark. (Albany Times Union)
Which earth-crisis documentary is for you? Sep 18, 2009
One of the story's many oddities is that Chevron was never involved in Ecuadoran oil exploration, or in the alleged systematic and deliberate discharge of oil sludge and contaminated water that has sometimes been called the "Amazon Chernobyl." But when Chevron acquired Texaco in 2001, it also took on that company's assets and liabilities, and now must defend itself in a case that has had many unexpected twists and turns. Andrew O'Hehir. (Salon)
Superstar adoptions expose our own hypocrisy Sep 14, 2009
According to the World Bank, its 2008 GNI per capita was $US3210, compared to $US45,390 in Elton's UK. The Ukrainians suffered extensively under Stalin, and significant parts of the country were poisoned by the Chernobyl disaster. Men's life expectancy is only 62 Elton's age. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
GM Convinced the Future Is in Fuel Cells Sep 12, 2009
Unfortunately, after the disaster at Chernobyl and near-disaster at Three-Mile Island, the public and government is so afraid of nuclear power that they would rather continue burning things than accept the truth of modern nuclear generation. "...and the sheep are nervous.". (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)
Did America Win the Cold War? Sep 12, 2009
The impacts of the Chernobyl disaster and world opinion about Soviet technology. Economically the IMF loans to Eastern bloc countries leading to massive debt and virtual third world economic status. (Suite101.com)
Scientists at odds over life signs in disaster zone Sep 10, 2009
It reads like a passage from a post-apocalyptic novel but it is how Tim Mousseau describes his first visit to Chernobyl ... The basic facts of Chernobyl are well known ... According to a 2005 UN report, long-term cancers caused by Chernobyl will eventually kill about 4000 people; an alarming total, but less than predicted. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Will Ecuador's Indians bankrupt Chevron? Sep 10, 2009
One of the story's many oddities is that Chevron was never involved in Ecuadoran oil exploration, or in the alleged systematic and deliberate discharge of oil sludge and contaminated water that has sometimes been called the "Amazon Chernobyl." But when Chevron acquired Texaco in 2001, it also took on that company's assets and liabilities, and now must defend itself in a case that has had many unexpected twists and turns. After lawyers for the 30,000 or so Ecuadoran plaintiffs filed suit in the... (Salon)
The Future of Commercial Atomic Power -- A Case for Nationalization Sep 1, 2009
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LETTER: Approach FutureGen with more caution Aug 31, 2009
Why do most of us remember names like Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Bhopal India, the Love Canal or Lake Nyos. (Or Young s Radiator. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Survival trumps aesthetics Aug 30, 2009
Articles receiving the most comments in the past 72 hours. Do you support sending astronauts to Mars. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Leaking pipe removed at oldest US nuclear plant Aug 28, 2009
Austria's children, in 50 years will not have to worry about what to do with the nuclear waste, nor worry about a disaster like Chernobyl or Three Mile Island. But if the people of Fresno County want to spare their children all the problems and dangers connected with nuclear power plants, they had better spread the word now that they do not want the cost and the risks of a nuclear power plant in the proximity of a populated area like Fresno County. (Fresno Bee -- Nation)
In Canton, Helen's hair to help Aug 26, 2009
She also has helped to do hair for Russian children who have suffered health ailments, as part of the Chernobyl Children's Project. In addition to helping in the community, McHowell said she has loved working in her hair salon, and with her customers. (Canton Journal, MA)
The truth is adrift with the Arctic Sea Aug 26, 2009
As in many prior cases (for example, the downing of a Korean passenger plane in 1983; the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, or the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006), this version is clumsy. The Moscow version raises, among others, the following questions. (Asia Times Online)
Nuclear emergency response tested in annual exercise Aug 21, 2009
"There have only been two major events -- one at Chernobyl and the other at Three-Mile Island -- and we believe nuclear energy is safe now," he continued. "This is just to be prepared, so everyone's expertise gets finely tuned.". (Fulton Sun, MO)
Safe, clean and abundant Aug 16, 2009
Detractors argue that the history of nuclear power development is rife with accidents, such as the Three Mile Island incident in the United States in 1979 and Chernobyl in1986. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of Soviet (mis)organisation and mismanagement, says Berol Robinson, president of EFNs arm in the United States ... Abdul Aziz, who is one of 13 officials on the International Advisory Committee on Nuclear Security, feels that technology has moved far beyond the days of Chernobyl. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Friday TV: Go Girls Aug 12, 2009
Over the years, Radio Free Europe and a second station, Radio Liberty, would break significant stories, such as Nikita Kruschev's denunciation of Joseph Stalin, the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising in Hungary and the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl. Skilfully told by its ageing participants, this doco merges the stories of individuals with the history of a station that today broadcasts into Afghanistan, Iran and Iraq. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Power plant safety debate far from settled Aug 10, 2009
First is the risk of a reactor accident, with Three Mile Island and Chernobyl being the most dramatic examples ... CHERNOBYL REACTORS DIFFER ... In the aftermath of the 1986 Chernobyl core meltdown, 53 deaths and 4,000 cases of thyroid cancer resulted, making it the world's worst nuclear disaster. (The Augusta Chronicle)
SVIATOSLAV I. STEVE SHASHOLIN (13) Aug 10, 2009
He was very active in the World Wrist Wrestling Championships in Petaluma and also with the Chernobyl Children s Project during their summer exchange program in Petaluma. He will be truly missed. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Areva's Field of Dreams Aug 7, 2009
The fear of nuclear accidents like the one at Three Mile Island in 1979 or at Chernobyl in 1986 has begun to fade as nuclear's backers make their case in a world growing warmer. Nuclear plants, goes their argument, provide a steady supply of relatively cheap energy with zero carbon emissions. (Time.com)
Rep. Tim Murphy shows support for Westinghouse, nuclear industry Aug 6, 2009
The tide for nuclear power has turned from the hesitations following reactor accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, he said. Candris contrasted the nuclear industry of yore regulation was uncertain, no two reactors with identical design, all broke ground without a final design in hand to current developments. (Pittsburgh Business Times, PA)
Afghan kids in NC for care set aside differences Aug 4, 2009
Dick Wilson, a retired insurance agent and his wife, Patsy, a real estate agent, started the organization in 1996 by bringing children from Belarus affected by the Chernobyl nuclear accident to the U.S. for medical treatment. As the need there diminished, the Wilsons turned their focus to Afghanistan. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Politics)
Planet Green Adds Five New Titles to Reel Impact Documentary Block Jul 31, 2009
When a dam burst at a Romanian goldmine in early 2000, more than 100,000 tons of cyanide was released into the Tisza River, devastating its ecology as well as the livelihoods of fisherman in neighboring Hungary and creating Central Europe's worst ecological disaster since Chernobyl. Inheritance: A Fisherman's Story follows fisherman Balazs Meszaros as he struggles with the effects of the disaster on his own community and attempts to confront the corporate forces behind the mining operation in an... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
A Nuclear Power Plant With a View Jul 22, 2009
Recent polling suggests that the general public is of nuclear plants than it has been in the past, as disasters like Chernobyl and Three Mile Island recede from memory. There's still a factor; people about putting in nuclear plants near where they live. (Slate)
Banking reform proposals outlined Jul 20, 2009
Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Vince Cable is expected to argue that large, failed UK banks are the "financial equivalent" of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster ... " 'Not hostile'Meanwhile, Mr Cable told the BBC that while he agreed with the Conservatives on the basic issue of economic management, he accused them of being "obsessed by moving around bureaucratic furniture". Instead we need to focus on the way regulation works, he said. Mr Cable will use a speech later to argue that major reform... (BBC News -- UK)
New pact to let European public track pollutants Jul 18, 2009
"It is truly a global instrument, part of a global movement initiated in the 1980s after the major accidents in Bhopal and Chernobyl," said Stanley-Jones ... The Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine in 1986, the world's worst civil nuclear accident, sent radiation over most of Europe. (Scientific American)
Nuclear plant would do nothing but benefit Elmore Co. Jul 17, 2009
Wind power accidents have killed around 60 people since 1970, about as many as died at the Chernobyl accident (an inherently unsafe design that has never been allowed in the U.S.). Yet we safely use dams, wind and other forms of energy. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
The Moon Landing through Soviet Eyes: A Q&A with Sergei Khrushchev, son of former premier Nikita Khrushchev Jul 17, 2009
There was also an officer from the KGB. We were in Ukraine, in Chernobyl. It was exactly the place where they later built the [infamous] nuclear power station. (Scientific American)
A Real Choice on Climate Change: Do Nothing Jul 17, 2009
The disaster at the shoddily constructed and poorly supervised Soviet-era plant at Chernobyl is used by the anti-nuclear activists as an example of what supposedly might happen here. Their hysteria does not impress the French, and should not impress any of us EXCEPT as evidence of the irrationality of those who cite it. (Townhall.com)
Japan's Mitsubishi eyes Lithuania nuclear project: PM Jul 15, 2009
Based on the same design as reactors from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster -- the world's worst nuclear energy accident -- the plant's first reactor was closed at the end of 2004. The new Ignalina power plant was originally due to be up and running by 2015, but is now officially scheduled for 2018. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Mom & Pop: U.S. should be getting 50% of power from nuclear Jul 14, 2009
Pop: Ever since Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, nuclear power is never stated too loudly. There are 104 remodeled conventional nuclear power plants in the U.S. that have been working profitably and safely for the last 25 years, at about twice the efficiency of the original reactors. (Weymouth News, MA)
Did China's Nuclear Tests Kill Thousands and Doom Future Generations? Jul 9, 2009
It is a sad opportunity, but it is an opportunity nonetheless to both learn something new and replicate what we think we are seeing elsewhere, observes Anders M;ller, who co-directs the Chernobyl Research Initiative (CRI) and is based at the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. Takada has calculated that the peak radiation dose in Xinjiang exceeded that measured on the roof of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor after it melted down in 1986. (Scientific American)
Why Some Tumors Don't Respond To Radiation And Chemotherapy Jul 8, 2009
"A slight shift of balance and the mice survive the equivalent of Chernobyl but are in big trouble when an oncogene is activated.". Their findings, to be published in the July issue of the journal Cancer Cell, could explain why some tumors don't respond to radiation or chemotherapy, and provide novel routes for the development of new anti-cancer therapies. (Science Daily)
* FEATURE : Castros doctors still give hope to Chernobyl children Jul 4, 2009
FEATURE : Castros doctors still give hope to Chernobyl children. NUCLEAR FAMILIES:: Young sufferers are still being treated by Cuban doctors 20 years after the Chernobyl disaster in the Ukraine and despite economic sanctions THE GUARDIAN, HAVANA Saturday, Jul 04, 2009, Page 7 ... Despite years of sanctions, the socialist country is still capable of digging deep into its pockets to help Ukrainian children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
New IAEA chief elected Jul 3, 2009
In 1986, the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union had a tremendous impact on the world's nuclear power development. In more than 20 years afterwards, the United States did not construct any new nuclear power plant, and Germany's new plant failed to be put into operation due to strong anti-nuclear forces in Europe. (Xinhuanet, China)
Belarus frees American lawyer Jul 1, 2009
"Don't tell me that the Belarus Democracy Act is beneficial for us," he said, claiming the U.S. was morally obliged to send financial aid to help the cleanup efforts in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. One-third of Belarus remains contaminated. (MSNBC -- International)
Chernobyl victims Jun 26, 2009
Anger over Chernobyl childrens' visas ... Charities who help children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster are urging the government to allow youngsters from Ukraine to enter the UK without paying visa fees ... Several charities discovered that in certain areas of Ukraine - within a few miles of the Chernobyl reactor - there were thousands of children whose lives were being affected by living in a highly radioactive environment. (BBC News -- UK)
LETTER: Prayers, as well as eyes, to be on Mattoon Jun 24, 2009
INVICTA wrote on Jun 23, 2009 11:02 AM:" Mattoon will go down in the history books. The worlds eyes will be on Mattoon.But then again the reason might be the same as Bhopal, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Lake Nyos. I agree, we should pray. This is no joke. Imagine how much coal will have to be consumed to create a by-product of liquid carbon dioxide at the rate of 1.9 tons per minute. Imagine the slag. This plant is going to be a monster. Pray for the 750 children who will spend several... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
James Kanter Nuclear renaissance hits trouble Jun 21, 2009
But early experience suggests these reactors will be no easier or cheaper to build than those of a generation ago, when cost overruns and then accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl ended the previous nuclear construction boom. In Flamanville, France, a clone of the Finnish reactor is also behind schedule and over budget. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Iran Is Not the Enemy Jun 18, 2009
Many Iranians privately fear that their government s clumsy fumblings with the atom will subject them to a Persian Chernobyl long before it endangers anyone else. In any case, if you wish to become frantic about Islamic bombs, then there is surely a better case for worrying about Pakistan, which already possesses such a bomb along with the missiles to hurl it about the region. (The American Conservative)
Needed: 100 New Nuclear Power Plants in 20 Years Jun 16, 2009
But what about Chernobyl ... Well, the Soviets did things very differently at Chernobyl than how we do it this country. (Human Events Online)
Nuclear power are we ready? May 30, 2009
In his e-mail to StarBizWeek, Ravi says he believes that the safety features of nuclear power plants have increased multi-fold over the last several decades, especially after some major nuclear power plants accidents such as the Three Miles Island in the US in the late 1970s and Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986 ... Citing the case of the Chernobyl disaster, he says there are still ongoing health effects from the incident to this day. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Business)
Forum: Nuclear power is way to a post-carbon era May 30, 2009
Seven years later, a fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine released huge amounts of radiation. More than two dozen workers died within months, and 4,000 cancer deaths eventually may be attributed to Chernobyl, according to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ... To be sure, the long-term effects of Chernobyl are tragic. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Penguins Notebook: Crosby's beard scores with some May 25, 2009
And winger Ruslan Fedotenko, who attributes his inability to grow a beard to being caught in fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when he was a boy. There even were a couple of surprising choices. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)
How the West Won: Norway Takes the Crown at Eurovision May 19, 2009
Critics deride the Eurovision Song Contest as a cultural Chernobyl, an ostentatious talent show in which gaudiness and sex appeal have more currency than musical ability. During the May 16 final, watched by more than 100 million people worldwide, contestants once again called upon their decidedly nonmusical charms: the Greek entry ripped his shirt to expose a waxed chest, while the Albanian entry wore a pink tutu and stood on a wind machine. (Time.com)
Safe Families For Children In Need May 19, 2009
exposure to fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 (visit Ukraine Orphans to help). Others are children born with fetal alcohol syndrome into a system that is insufficiently equipped to care for them. (CBS News)
American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 13, 2009 May 18, 2009
Solving the mystery of how plants survive near Chernobyl Journal of Proteome Research. Twenty-two years after the Chernobyl nuclear power station accident in the Ukraine the worst in history scientists are reporting insights into the mystery of how plants have managed to adapt and survive in the radioactive soil near Chernobyl ... Martin Hajduch and colleagues note in the new study that plants growing in the Chernobyl area following the April 26, 1986 disaster somehow adapted to the... (EurekAlert! -- Business News)
Chernobyl fallout still lingers in Britain after 20 years May 14, 2009
NEARLY 370 farms in Britain are still restricted in the way they use land and rear sheep because of radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident 23 years ago, the Government has said ... He said: "Ministers describe nuclear power as 'clean and green', as they press for up to 11 new reactors to be built But these latest figures on Chernobyl fallout give the lie to these claims."Any breach-of-containment accident at Sellafield's high-activity liquid radioactive waste storage tanks would... (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
* Can we prevent the landing of the black swan of climate change? May 10, 2009
The question of whether to use coal or nuclear power is simply no longer apposite: without a breakthrough in renewable energies, global energy demand cannot be met, not to mention the dangers of a new Chernobyl. Where this will lead the world can be seen even today: China already has the worlds most ambitious scheme for expanding nuclear energy, and every year it builds coal-fired power plants whose electricity output is roughly equivalent to the capacity of the entire British power grid. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Valentin Varennikov; directed the Soviet war in Afghanistan May 8, 2009
From 1984-1989, General Varennikov served as the top Soviet military officer in Afghanistan, leaving the country briefly to help coordinate salvage efforts after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. In 1988, General Varennikov was awarded the highest Soviet decoration, the Hero of the Soviet Union medal. (Boston Globe)
Nuclear power foes not stilled in N.E. May 4, 2009
At the same time, the nation's collective memory of accidents such as those at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl is fading. Opposition to new and existing nuclear power plants is far stronger in New England than in the South or in parts of the Western United States, said Lee Olivier, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Northeast Utilities. (Boston Globe)
Amazon Defense Coalition: 60 Minutes To Air Segment On Chevron's "Amazon Chernobyl" In Ecuador's Rainforest May 2, 2009
Chevron faces a potential liability of $27 billion in a 15-year class action lawsuit over the environmental damage in Ecuadors courts, which experts have called the Amazon Chernobyl. A decision in that case, which was transferred from U.S. federal court to Ecuador at Chevrons request, is expected later this year. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Majority Of Ordering Physicians Lack Knowledge Of Radiation Exposure Risks From CT Apr 30, 2009
9, 2007) A new study has found that risks from radiation exposure to people involved in the Chernobyl incident may be much less significant than most of us. (Apr. (Science Daily)
Top 10 Worst Video Game Vacations Apr 28, 2009
The Zone (S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl) ... I figured the radiation from the Chernobyl disaster should be nice and low by now but, boy, was I wrong. (IGN PS2)
Roundup: Young-adult reading Apr 16, 2009
It's narrated by Max, 14, a headstrong girl who offers some background but advises readers: "See book three; I can't keep explaining everything. If I'm gonna take the trouble to write this stuff down, the least you can do is read it." It includes G-rated romance and vocabulary such as "sucks" and "crapola," as well as "Hiroshima" and "Chernobyl." The draw is more the non-stop cinematic action than the writing. Bob Minzesheimer. (USA Today -- Life)
This week's calendar: April 13 - 19 Apr 13, 2009
Life After People visits abandoned town of Chernobyl and remote islands off the coast of Maine to find out; documentary provides a visual journey into the future of Earth without humans; in conjunction with Athens GreenFest; 94 min.. Survivors of Suicide Support Group 5:30 p.m., Nuci s Space, 396 Oconee St.; twice-monthly meeting; (706) 227-1515 or linda@nuci. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Doors opening for CWU student from Belarus Apr 8, 2009
Joe Whiteside / Daily Record ELLENSBURG When this 20-year-old Central Washington University student is asked about the Ellensburg Children of Chernobyl program you d swear her eyes brighten and her face, as the well-worn saying goes, seems to glow ... Tania says if a Belarusian youngster is fortunate enough to come to Ellensburg s Children of Chernobyl program, they experience much more than that ... Children of Chernobyl was like opening the doors for me. (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)
Newsweek: How GM crushed Saturn Apr 8, 2009
Yes, you might be able to mine, crush, and coke like back in the day, but you would leave behind an environmental disaster that would rival Chernobyl. You see tailings and slag leach heavy metals like tellurium, lead, cadmium. (MSNBC -- Business)
Safety concerns far from overblown Apr 6, 2009
Tens of thousands of lives may have been cut short by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. There are also unplanned and unreported releases of radioactivity at nuclear plants and accidents involving the transportation of nuclear waste every week in the United States. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
British suppliers risk missing ou... Apr 3, 2009
This was shown up by the award of contracts for the first nuclear power station to be ordered in Western Europe since Chernobyl. British companies account for less than 1 per cent of those working on the 4. (New York Post -- Business)
Nuclear: News Sounds From Sweden Apr 1, 2009
To be specific, he insisted that the Swedish fear of nuclear is grounded in fact rather than make-believe, following which he referred to the tragic accident at Chernobyl, as well as several near-accidents at similar reactors in the Baltic region. W here that Swedish "academic" is concerned, the opinion here is that he should be barred from the position that he so ingloriously occupies, while the persons who gave him that position should be under investigation by the police, because it is... (Energy Pulse, CO)
