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ASAHI SHIMBUN 28 April 2006 – The United Nations General Assembly today marked 20 years since the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the most severe in the history of the nuclear power industry, with officials calling for more action to address the health and other challenges faced by Belarus, the Ukraine and the Russian Federation, the countries…

ROYSTON CROW – 27 April 2006 Nicola Dunklin working to help the children of Chernobyl YESTERDAY (Wednesday) marked the 20th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power accident – Chernobyl. The accident released 190 tons of highly radioactive waste material into the atmosphere, exposing the people of Chernobyl to radioactivity 90 times greater than that…

L.A. TIMES The 20th anniversary of the nuclear disaster in neighboring Ukraine is the backdrop for new demonstrations against the government. Kim Murphy, April 27, 2006 MINSK, Belarus — In a country still deeply ravaged by the worst nuclear accident in history, opposition leaders rallied thousands in the streets of this capital on Wednesday, calling…

NEW YORK TIMES – MATTHEW L. WALD April 25, 2006 WASHINGTON, April 24 — The nuclear industry has hired Christie Whitman, the former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and Patrick Moore, a co-founder of Greenpeace, the environmental organization, to lead a public relations campaign for new reactors. Nuclear power is “environmentally friendly, affordable, clean,…

SPIKED, 27 April 2006 Twenty years on from the explosion, the anti-nuclear lobby is still playing fast and loose with the facts about casualties. by James Woudhuysen Two decades on from the explosion at Chernobyl nuclear power station on 26 April 1986, the anti-nuclear lobby plays fast and loose with the facts about suffering and…

Ceri Au, Maisoneuve Magazine, April 27, 2006 Once an obscure town of little note, 80 miles north of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, Chernobyl was catapulted onto the front pages of newspapers and into the vernacular of global citizens with the catastrophic events of April 26, 1986. The explosion at the town’s nuclear power plant…

Twenty years on, a new generation of children is not getting the treatment it needs for Chernobyl-related sickness. Marianna Grigorian and Gayane Mkrtchian in Yerevan, 27 April 2006 The skin of Sennik Alexanian has a strange yellow hue to it, his bones stick out and his eyes bulge. Alexanian is only 49 but his immune…

IT has now been two decades since the world’s biggest nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, and effects are still being felt. Then in the former USSR, now in Ukraine, the town is still a black-spot for radiation sickness. On April 26th, 1986, due to the negligence of the operators and an inherently unsafe design, a reactor…

Stephen Brown Geneva (ENI). Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has told an interfaith gathering his life has never been the same since the day in 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power station exploded creating the world’s worst nuclear disaster. “The disaster was a shocking reminder of the reality of nuclear threats and it has become…

By Lauren Mack Apr 27, 2006, 18:47 GMT UNITED NATIONS, United States (UPI) — On the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl, the United Nations remembered the tragedy and reflected on what is being done to prevent a repeat accident. Several U.N. agencies honored the emergency workers, victims both living and deceased, and the volunteers who have…

WALL STREET JOURNAL April 27, 2006 How many people died because of the Chernobyl nuclear-reactor explosion, which spewed radiation across northern Europe? Twenty years after the accident, the death toll remains in dispute. This month, the World Health Organization estimated “up to” 9,000 people died or will die of cancer because of the incident, which…

ALLAN LAING – GLASGOW HERALD – April 27 2006 IT happened 20 years ago and 1500 miles away, yet the dark spectre of the Chernobyl disaster still hangs across the land. Even in Scotland, Some 10 farms remain under restrictions because of the lingering radioactive fall-out. The people of Ukraine yesterday marked the twentieth anniversary…

Updated Wed. Apr. 26 2006 11:51 PM ET – CTV.ca News Staff View of the gray cracked and crumbling sarcophagus covering Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s damaged Reactor No. 4. The reactor exploded on April 26, 1986, spewing radioactive clouds across much of Europe. (image: IAEA) Bells tolled and sirens sounded in Ukraine Wednesday morning, marking…

4 April 2006 FALLOUT Robert Knoth Panos Pictures and Greenpeace present an exhibition of award-winning photographs by Robert Knoth to mark the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. The exhibition runs at the Oxo gallery in London from 18 April to 14 May Main photo (top) Ainagul (6) has not grown since the age…