A PRIPYAT, DOVE CHERNOBYL FERMÒ LA STORIA

A Pripyat, dove Chernobyl fermò la storia

Con un’ordine di evacuazione emanato il 27 aprile 1986, la tranquilla esistenza di questa giovane cittadina sovietica venne all’improvviso interrotta dalla catastrofe avvenuta nella vicina centrale nucleare. E gli abitanti del posto che si salvarono dalle radiazioni non fecero mai più ritorno alle proprie case

Reportage fotografico su Pripyat prima dell'incidente

Data: 26.04.2017
Fonte: www.rbth.com

WHY CHERNOBYL’S JEWISH HISTORY STILL MATTERS — 31 YEARS AFTER THE ACCIDENT

Why Chernobyl’s Jewish History Still Matters - 31 Years After The Accident

y aunt recently reminded me that everything changed on April 26, 1986. I knew this, of course, but it wasn’t often that my family talked about the accident or the evacuation.
When I was growing up in Brooklyn, my grandfather Mikhail spoke proudly of his work at a nuclear power plant, as well as of the house he built in the town in which he grew up, where he met and married my grandmother Mira, and where my father Slava and aunt Lena were born.
As a child, I didn’t realize many things from my grandfather’s stories: that he worked at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, including on the night of the accident; what it meant for my grandparents to call Chernobyl home long before the plant was opened in 1977; that the house my grandfather built was no longer there.
Read more: http://forward.com/culture/369966/why-chernobyls-jewish-history-still-matters-31-years-after-the-accident/

My aunt recently reminded me that everything changed on April 26, 1986. I knew this, of course, but it wasn’t often that my family talked about the accident or the evacuation.

My grandparents, father and their friend playing by the Pripyat

When I was growing up in Brooklyn, my grandfather Mikhail spoke proudly of his work at a nuclear power plant, as well as of the house he built in the town in which he grew up, where he met and married my grandmother Mira, and where my father Slava and aunt Lena were born.

As a child, I didn’t realize many things from my grandfather’s stories: that he worked at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, including on the night of the accident; what it meant for my grandparents to call Chernobyl home long before the plant was opened in 1977; that the house my grandfather built was no longer there.

It was impossible to know, the way he spoke about that house. I grew up not understanding why my grandfather left a place he seemed to long for – and questioning if perhaps my family came from two cities, only one of which sparked anguished memories of hunger, war, and anti-Semitism.

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Data: 25.04.2017

Fonte: www.forward.com

y aunt recently reminded me that everything changed on April 26, 1986. I knew this, of course, but it wasn’t often that my family talked about the accident or the evacuation.
When I was growing up in Brooklyn, my grandfather Mikhail spoke proudly of his work at a nuclear power plant, as well as of the house he built in the town in which he grew up, where he met and married my grandmother Mira, and where my father Slava and aunt Lena were born.
As a child, I didn’t realize many things from my grandfather’s stories: that he worked at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, including on the night of the accident; what it meant for my grandparents to call Chernobyl home long before the plant was opened in 1977; that the house my grandfather built was no longer there.
Read more: http://forward.com/culture/369966/why-chernobyls-jewish-history-still-matters-31-years-after-the-accident/

CERNOBYL: LE LEZIONI NON IMPARATE

Cernobyl: le lezioni non imparate

Reportage di Greenpeace dal villaggio di Starye Bobovici (in provincia di Novozybkov, nella zona contaminata russa)

(in russo)

Серое кирпичное здание с надписью «100 лет Ленину», выложенной из красного кирпича (очевидно, что оно было построено в 1970 году). Ниже — табличка «Добро пожаловать!». Выше — российский флаг. Это школа в селе Старые Бобовичи Брянской области. Перед школой мы видим небольшой деревянный домик. Здесь обычно играют дети.

Ностальгическая картина, если бы не ощущение постоянной опасности. И здесь правда есть чего опасаться: когда Гринпис России брал образцы грунта возле школы и местного клуба, активность одной из проб по цезию-137 оказалась настолько высокой, что она попала под определение «радиоактивные отходы», а плотность загрязнения в центре села — примерно такой же, как в 30-километровой зоне вокруг Чернобыльской АЭС.

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Data: 26.04.2017
Fonte: www.greenpeace.org/russia

THIRTY-ONE YEARS ON, CHERNOBYL TAKES A PLACE AMONG HUMANITY’S DARKEST PASSAGES

Thirty-one years on, Chernobyl takes a place among humanity’s darkest passages

This year, April 26, the 31^st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, will mark the first year the United Nations observes the date as an International Day of Remembrance. The commemoration is bold, wedging the catastrophe’s place among some of humanity’s deepest scars.

Other days of remembrance observed by the UN are reserved for the Holocaust, victims of the transatlantic slave trade, and the Rwandan Genocide, putting the 1986 Soviet nuclear plant disaster in dark and troubled company.

Like these other human calamities, Chernobyl still casts more shadows than light, continues to beg confounding questions, and will press the limits of understanding for decades to come. The tragedy was one of the Soviet Union’s last grisly secrets, and five years after the toxic explosion, its empire collapsed with the reactor’s rubble.

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Data: 25.04.2017
Fonte: www.bellona.org

 

31 YEARS LATER, THE LIGHTS COME BACK ON IN CHERNOBYL

31 Years Later, the Lights Come Back on in Chernobyl

On April 26, 1986, a nuclear meltdown at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine caused radioactive material to be spewed into the atmosphere, exposing hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of people in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe to extremely high doses of radiation.

The effects of the nuclear fallout are still being felt: more than 500,000 people in Belarus, the country most affected by the disaster, have thyroid problems stemming from Chernobyl radiation, and more than 2 million people live in areas of the country that put them at high risk of contamination.

Last week, on the eve of the 31st anniversary of the disaster, a group of Polish adventurers decided to turn the lights back on in Pripyat, a radioactive ghost town located three miles from the Chernobyl reactor. Pripyat was evacuated the day after the meltdown and has been abandoned ever since—though it has become the center of the disaster tourism industry that has developed in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.

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Data: 19.04.2017

Fonte: www.globalvoices.org