Israele: a Dimona sono iniziati i lavori di espansione della centrale nucleare

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/

DIMONA, TIMORI PER IL REATTORE DELLA CENTRALE ATOMICA ISRAELIANA

Dimona, timori per il reattore della centrale atomica israeliana
 

L’Istituto 2 della centrale nucleare di Dimona «visto da fuori, è una costruzione di cemento, grezza e priva di finestre, di due piani… le mura sono spesse abbastanza da resistere a un bombardamento e sul tetto c’è una torre per l’ascensore che non parrebbe necessaria per un edificio tanto piccolo. Per trent’anni questo innocuo pezzo di cemento ha celato i segreti di Israele…Le mura del piano terra nascondono ascensori di servizio che portano uomini e materiali a 6 livelli sotterranei, dove i componenti per le armi atomiche sono prodotti e assemblati in parti per le testate missilistiche». Sono alcuni passaggi di un lungo servizio pubblicato il 5 ottobre 1986 dal Sunday Times fondato sulle rivelazioni fatte nelle settimane precedenti da Mordechai Vanunu, un ex tecnico della centrale di Dimona che aveva raccontato al giornale britannico le produzioni nucleari militari di Israele che non ha mai ratificato il Trattato di non proliferazione e che non è soggetto ai controlli dell’Aiea.

Quando apparve l’articolo Vanunu era già in prigione in Israele, dopo essere stato rapito a Roma dal Mossad e riportato in patria per essere processato per tradimento e condannato a 18 anni di carcere. Una vicenda di eccezionale importanza che però fece poco scalpore, come spesso accade quando sul tavolo ci sono i segreti militari di Israele. Un po’ tutti perciò chiusero un occhio. L’Italia tutti e due, nonostante Vanunu fosse stato sequestrato a Roma. La magistratura aprì le indagini ma il governo dell’epoca non fece nulla per aiutarla. Troppo stretti erano (e sono) i rapporti tra i servizi segreti di Italia e Israele. Calò il silenzio su attività nucleari fuori da ogni controllo internazionale di cui per la prima volta si apprendevano particolari inquietanti. Eppure il mondo in quei mesi faceva i conti con le conseguenze della più grave catastrofe nucleare della storia, avvenuta il 26 aprile di quello stesso anno a Chernobyl. Tanti hanno dimenticato Mordechai Vanunu. Uscito 12 anni fa dal carcere, l’ex tecnico nucleare reclama il diritto di lasciare Israele che gli negano le autorità «per motivi di sicurezza». Nessun giornalista straniero può intervistarlo: verrebbe subito espulso dal Paese.

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Data: 27.04.2016

Fonte: www.ilmanifesto.it