Belarus may have taken the brunt of the fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, writes Kieran Cooke. But now it's pushing ahead with its own nuclear power station at Ostrovets - just 50km from Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, where the project is causing widespread public concern.
… Thirty years after Chernobyl, Belarus goes nuclear Kieran Cooke | 25th April 2016 News Nuclear Russia Belarus Lithuania Energy … novovoronezh_nuclear_power_plant_ii-cut.png Belarus may have taken the brunt of the …
The Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe may have scared most of the world off nuclear power, write Jan Haverkamp & Iryna Holovko. But mysteriously, not Ukraine, where the reactor meltdown actually took place. Thirty years on more than half of Ukraine's electricity is still nuclear, while the power sector is dominated by powerful oligarchs. So what are the chances of a post-nuclear Ukraine?
… Nuclear Energy Renewables Solar Russia Belarus Corporations … fleet for its electricity provision. Indeed, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine continue to face … continues to promote nuclear power, and Belarus is trying to introduce nuclear …
Thirty years since the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl the impacts are still being felt, writes Ian Fairlie, and they will persist long into the future. Some 40,000 cancer deaths can be expected across Europe over the next 50 years, and 5 million people still living in areas highly contaminated with radiation. Yet the nuclear madness continues, with even Belarus building new nuclear reactors.
… Nuclear Energy Radiation Health Ukraine Belarus chernobyl-toys-cut.jpg Thirty years … Yet the nuclear madness continues, with even Belarus building new nuclear reactors. In … 16,000 more expected 5 million people in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia still live in …
Just as climate change deniers leap from scientific uncertainty over the precise impacts of greenhouse gas emissions to certainty of little or no impact at all, so 'pro-nuclear environmentalists' conflate uncertainty of the mortality arising from Chernobyl and other nuclear disasters to certainty of few if any deaths, writes Jim Green. Their position is equally indefensible.
… Nuclear Health Science Radiation WMD Ukraine Belarus doll.jpg Just as climate change … deaths among people exposed to lower doses in Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. … Energy Agency and the governments of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine - and discover that 'the …
Britain's nuclear bomb test veterans suffered severe genetic damage from radiation, writes Chris Busby, and their case for compensation is being heard in the High Court today. Key to their case is evidence of similar damage inflicted on in utero babies exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl disaster, and how the dreadful health impacts of radiation cascade down to future generations.
… WMD Health Law Science UK Ukraine Russia Belarus op_hurricane-cut.jpg Britain's nuclear … from Germany, Turkey, Greece, Croatia, Egypt, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Hungary, Italy, the …
Poland's environment ministry has a plan for a huge increase in logging in Europe's last great primeval forest, writes Zachary Davies Boren. Officials claim it's to control bark beetles. But ecologists say the insects are regulated naturally within the forest ecosystem, while logging threatens huge damage to irreplaceable biodiversity.
… Forests Biodoversity Ecology UNESCO Poland Belarus EU Law fallen-tree-cut.jpg Poland's … spans 1,600 square kilometres at the Polish-Belarusian border, is one of the most …
Poland is intent on a huge increase in logging in Europe's greatest ancient forest, writes Lucinda Kirkpatrick. The government says it's needed to control spruce bark beetles. But the insect is a key part of the ecosystem, creating woodpecker nest sites and habitat for other endangered species. In truth it's just a big timber grab that must be strongly resisted.
… . Straddling the border between Poland and Belarus, Bialowieza is the last remainder of …
Renewable energy could supply Russia and Central Asian countries with 100% of their electricity needs by 2030, writes Paul Brown - and cut costs significantly compared to nuclear power and CO2-abated fossil fuels.
… well as Russia, the researched area includes Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and …
In becoming the 2016 Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Bob Dylan is in esteemed company; many previous recipients have also been voices for social protest and change, all of whom have borne witness to their life and times writes HARRIET GRIFFEY
… United States 2015 Svetlana Alexievich, Belarus 2014 Patrick Modiano, France 2013 …
Cancer is just one of of the outcomes of the genetic damage inflicted by nuclear radiation, writes Chris Busby, and perhaps one of the least important. Of far greater long term significance is the broad-scale mutation of the human genome, and those of other species, and the resulting genomic instability that causes cascades of heritable mutations through the generations.
… by the Chernobyl accident, not only in Belarus and Ukraine but in wider Europe where …
Despite the endless rhetoric about a 'nuclear renaissance', there are fewer power reactors today than there were a decade ago, writes Jim Green. The one country with a really big nuclear build program is China, but no one expects it to meet its targets. And with over 200 reactor shut-downs due by 2040, the industry will have to run very hard indeed just to stay put.
… countries are actually building reactors - Belarus and the United Arab Emirates. Other …