Tag: nuclear

TALLI NAUMAN, THE HERALD, MEXICO, AUGUST 14, 2006 As a wild mushroom hunter and consumer, I feel great empathy for the family who became the victim of fatal mushroom poisoning this month in Mexico’s southern state of Chiapas. A tragedy from misidentifying a mushroom or from other food poisoning could beset any family. But this…

ADAM EWING, THE LOCAL, SWEDEN, AUGUST 3, 2006 Some 20 years after Chernobyl’s devastating nuclear meltdown, possible faults at two Swedish facilities have led four of the nation’s 10 reactors to go offline. Late on Wednesday night, OKG, the company operating the boiling water reactors in Oskarshamn, in southeast Sweden, decided to shutdown two of…

THE LOCAL, SWEDEN, AUGUST 2, 2006 Greenpeace has called for all Swedish nuclear reactors to be shut down immediately, after a serious fault at the Forsmark nuclear plant. The environmental campaigning organization said that there is a risk that other nuclear plants in Sweden have the same problem. The Forsmark incident, which one Swedish nuclear…

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, August 1, 2006 The nuclear complex at Forsmark, Sweden FORSMARK, Sweden, Aug. 1 (UPI) — Last week’s shutdown of the Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden, north of Stockholm, reportedly could have resulted in a meltdown. The emergency — called by some the most dangerous international nuclear incident since the destruction of…

EVA SALINAS, GLOBE AND MAIL, CANADA, JULY 21, 2006 VANCOUVER — The day of the world’s worst nuclear disaster passed without notice by 12-year-old Galena Datenkova and her family. Less than a week later, after Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded on April 26, 1986, the Datenkova family kept…

<hertfordshire & ESSEX NEWS, JULY 21, 2006 THE precious sight of a teenager from Eastern Europe has been restored following two operations at a district hospital. Ksenya Audzeyeva, 13, who comes from Mogilev in Belarus, a region contaminated by the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in Ukraine in 1986, came to England blinded by cataracts. She…

REUTERS, JULY 6, 2006 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A new study confirms a substantially increased risk of thyroid cancer among people exposed to radiation during childhood and adolescence after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. A total of 13,127 of the 32,385 individuals living in the most contaminated area of the Ukraine during the nuclear…

ST PETERSBURG TIMES, JUNE 6, 2006 Russia to Float Atomic Reactor By Judith Ingram Associated Press MOSCOW — An Arctic military shipbuilding plant and the Federal Atomic Energy Agency signed a contract Wednesday to build the world’s first floating nuclear reactor. The 9.1 billion ruble ($330 million) reactor will be built by the Sevmash plant…

MOSCOW, TATYANA SINITSINA German newspaper Berliner Zeitung published articles about the Chernobyl disaster on April 3 and 26 (Die unverstandene Katastrophe; Die Katastrophe nach der Katastrophe), which have been reprinted by many Internet publications. Journalists Frank Nordhausen and Christian Esch cite Konstantin Checherov of the Russian Kurchatov Institute, who has “spoken the truth” at long…

THE PLAIN DEALER, WEDNESDAY MAY 10, 2006 Donna Marchetti It has been 20 years since the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl blew apart, spewing radiation that caused 100,000 people to flee their homes in Ukraine and Belarus. The accident has triggered a rise in cancer, neurological disorders and genetic mutations every year since. In Voices From…

PHOTO: RICKY DÁVILA United Nations, April 28 2006 More than 18,000 children, victims of the disaster at Chernobyl´s nuclear station 20 years ago, have received assistance in Cuba, Cuban Ambassador to the UN Rodrigo Malmierca reported on Friday. The Cuban permanent representative to the United Nations told a special session on the anniversary of the…

THE ASAHI SHIMBUN April 28th 2006 It is a truism that memories fade with time. To young people, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of April 26, 1986, is about to become a topic of history learned in schools. They are to be taught about an event that occurred 20 years ago, but not in the context…

INDIANAPOLIS — A “positive void coefficient” was the tidy phrase they used to describe the unspeakable nuclear conflagration that erupted out of the No. 4 reactor at Chernobyl 20 years ago. On this date back then, thousands of tons of airborne strontium-90 and other radioactive isotope particulates were drifting lazily across the then-Soviet Union and…

Published 2:15 am PDT Tuesday, May 2, 2006 YEREVAN, Armenia — Sennik Alexanian’s skin has a strange yellow hue; his bones stick out and his eyes bulge. At 49, his immune system has collapsed. Like thousands of others, he divides his life into two periods — before and after Chernobyl. Alexanian was one of the…

Apr 28 2006 – George Tattum, Mold Chronicle Children releasing balloons for Chernobyl A CHARITY which provides holidays for young victims of the Chernobyl disaster has enlisted Deeside children to take part in its latest fund-raising campaign. Pupils from Golftyn Primary School, Connah’s Quay, joined local Chernobyl Children’s Life Line organisers to sell balloons to…