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The Chernobyl Podcast

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The official podcast of the miniseries Chernobyl, from HBO and Sky. Join host Peter Sagal (NPR’s “Wait Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”) and series creator, writer and executive producer Craig Mazin after each episode as they discuss the true stories that shaped the scenes, themes and characters.

Great podcast to listen to once you’ve watched the HBO series. The author explains the narrative choices he had to make and how much/when the series departs from what actually happened.

And for good measure, two episodes of the BBC’s ’More or Less’:
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1) Questioning the Chernobyl disaster death count

The recent TV miniseries ‘Chernobyl’ has stirred up debate online about the accuracy of its portrayal of the explosion at a nuclear power plant in the former Soviet state of Ukraine. We fact-check the programme and try and explain why it so hard to say how many people will die because of the Chernobyl disaster.

▻http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07dtdwq.mp3

2) Is nuclear power actually safer than you think?

We questioned the death count of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in last week’s More or Less podcast. In the end, Professor Jim Smith of Portsmouth University came up with an estimate of 15,000 deaths.

But we wondered how deadly nuclear power is overall when compared to other energy sources? Dr Hannah Ritchie of the University of Oxford joins Charlotte McDonald to explore.

▻http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p07fgfl5.mp3

#podcast #chernobyl #statistics

Nota Bene - Réaction : USA VS RUSSIE - Débarquement et Chernobyl -
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_ARaRQcu5I

Chernobyl now: ’I was not afraid of radiation’ – a photo essay | Environment | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jun/07/chernobyl-now-i-was-not-afraid-of-radiation-a-photo-essay

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I arrived in Ukraine on the eve of the 32nd anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. I had not intended for it to be the focus of my time in Kyiv, but leading up to my departure it became an obsession. My arrival in Kyiv on 25 April 2018 was maybe happenstance of planning but I was impelled to head straight from the airport to Slavutych. This was the town built to replace Pripyat and host the evacuated personnel of the Chernobyl power plant, after the decision was made to continue power production following the disaster. All of the Soviet republics were called upon to hurriedly help with the construction of what would eventually be the last atomic town.

#nucléaire #tchernobyl #photography

BBC - Capital - The city in the shadow of an ageing nuclear reactor
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Metsamor has been described as one of the world’s most dangerous nuclear power plants because of its location in an earthquake zone.

It sits just 35km (22 miles) from Armenia’s bustling capital, Yerevan, with distant views of snowy Mount Ararat across the border in Turkey.

The plant was constructed around the same time as Chernobyl in the 1970s. At the time the Metsamor reactor provided energy for the growing needs of a vast Soviet Union, which once had ambitious plans to generate 60% of its electricity from nuclear power by 2000.

#nucléaire #arménie #ex-urss #soviétisme #metsamor

Les #déplacés de l’#accident de #Fukushima. : Les conséquences sociales et sanitaires, et les #initiatives_citoyennes.

La situation des déplacés de Fukushima est complexe et mouvante. Ce projet se focalise sur les sinistrés de l’accident nucléaire hors zones d’#évacuations_forcées, qui sont les moins audibles dans les recherches existantes. La situation locale évoluant extrêmement rapidement, tant au niveau institutionnel qu’aux niveaux familial et individuel, nous avons décidé de recourir à la #recherche-action c’est-à-dire en coopération étroite avec les groupes de citoyens, pour partager leurs connaissances fines et suivies du terrain. Nous avons sélectionné un terrain permettant d’appréhender des régions à la fois lointaines et proches du département de Fukushima, la #distance semblant discriminante a priori des attaches au département et de la conscience du #risque. Des entretiens biographiques réalisés par une équipe franco-japonaise pluridisciplinaire permettront de saisir le parcours des individus, qui se tracerait dans les trames tissées par les cadres institutionnels, leurs liens aux connaissances « scientifique » et « profane » de la #radioactivité, et leurs expériences biographiques. Ces entretiens permettront aussi d’aborder l’individualisation de la gestion du risque, ses aspects psychologiques et juridiques.

▻https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00967033
#santé #nucléaire #catastrophe_nucléaire #IDPs #déplacés_internes #migrations

Et d’autres publications de #Marie_Augendre :
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ping @reka

▻http://www.kedistan.net/2018/08/11/nucleaires-turquie-bombe

La construction de centrales nucléaires en #Turquie, tant préparée par les régimes successifs, est désormais engagée pour deux projets précis et en finalisation pour au minimum un autre. #Kedistan cherchait un feuilleton d’été rayonnant, ça tombe bien.

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What’s Worse: Unwanted Mutations or Unwanted Humans? - Facts So Romantic
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Three of the rare Przewalski’s horses that now roam the area near the Chernobyl nuclear plant.Photograph by Sergey GaschakAfter a fatal series of errors and malfunctions in the early morning of April 26, 1986, the core of the Chernobyl nuclear facility melted down and then exploded, killing 31 workers at the plant. The accident spewed massive amounts of radioactive material into the surrounding area, forcing a mass evacuation of the nearby villages. Many wild animals died from the direct toxicity of the radiation and almost 1,000 acres of the Red Forest—named for the unusual color its trees turned after the disaster—died within months. The most radioactive human settlements were bulldozed and buried. (See the related story about the most radioactive part of the nuclear plant: (...)

Chernobyl’s nuclear disaster reveals the unpredictability of evolution
▻https://massivesci.com/articles/nuclear-disaster-fallout-chernobyl-evolution-science

Also that humans may be worse for animals than radioactive fallout

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Russian-built nuclear plant revives Chernobyl fears

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Sous paywall.

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uivydziai is a typical Lithuanian village. A sleepy place with fewer than 300 inhabitants, it has a church, a couple of shops and a school that takes in children from the surrounding countryside.

But three years ago, a new neighbour began to take shape. Looming on the horizon just 20km away are the massive cooling towers of a nuclear power station being built near the small Belarusian town of Ostrovets. In a region still scarred by the complex legacy of the Soviet Union and the devastating human consequences of the Chernobyl disaster three decades ago, Belarus’ decision to build a Russian-financed power station on its border with the EU has become a source of deep anxiety.

#nucléaire #russie #ex-urss

L’eau contaminée de #Fukushima devrait être déversée dans le #Pacifique - polynésie 1ère
►http://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/polynesie/eau-contaminee-fukushima-devrait-etre-deversee-pacifique-494789.

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Juillet 2017

777.000 m3 d’eau ayant servi à refroidir les réacteurs ou issus des inondations dans les sous-sol de la centrale, sont stockées à la centrale #nucléaire de Fukushima. Un traitement supprime 62 molécules radioactives, mais pas le #tritium, un isotope radioactif qui ne peut pas disparaître par traitement industriel. L’eau est donc stockée depuis des années, mais les volumes atteignent des niveaux importants et Tepco cherche maintenant à s’en débarasser. L’exploitant, Takashi Kawamura, n’attend plus que le feu vert du gouvernement japonais.

Le tritium existe naturellement dans l’environnement et les autorités affirment qu’il est présent en très petite quantité dans l’eau de Fukushima. Mais cette perspective d’un déversement inquiète la population locale et les pêcheurs. 

Le 11 mars 2011, la centrale nucléaire de Fukushima avait été touchée par un tremblement de terre, suivi d’un tsunami. Trois des six réacteurs sont continuellement arrosés d’eau pour les refroidir.

Fukushima Plant Is Releasing 770,000 Tons of Radioactive Water Into the Pacific Ocean
▻http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/41564-fukushima-plant-is-releasing-tons-of-radioactive-water-into-the-pac

“Once toxic tritium makes it into the environment, it will bind anywhere hydrogen binds,” Savabieasfahani said. “Imagine a toxic particle that can freely travel through our cells and bind to every molecule of life in our bodies and cause damage. Tritium is a carcinogen, a teratogen and a mutagen all rolled into one.”

According to Savabieasfahani, there is no safe threshold level for tritium, as it can harm living organisms no matter how low its concentrations.

Life after Chernobyl: Who Still Lives in the Areas Contaminated after the Nuclear Accident - Bird In Flight

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Spanish photographer Quintina Valero visited the exclusion zone and captured people who continue to live on the contaminated territory despite the danger.
Quintina Valero

Documentary photographer and photojournalist from Spain. After a career in finance she moved to London in 2001 where she studied Photojournalism at the London College of Communication. Published her work in The Guardian, Sunday Times, Thomson Reuter Foundation, El País, and The Internationale.

#tchernobyl #nucléaire #ukraine #soviétisme

’Petya’ ransomware attack strikes companies across Europe and US | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/27/petya-ransomware-attack-strikes-companies-across-europe
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“This is not an experienced ransomware operator,” said Ryan Kalember, senior vice-president of cybersecurity strategy at Proofpoint.

The attack was first reported in Ukraine, where the government, banks, state power utility and Kiev’s airport and metro system were all affected. The radiation monitoring system at Chernobyl was taken offline, forcing employees to use hand-held counters to measure levels at the former nuclear plant’s exclusion zone.

Some technology experts said the attack appeared consistent with an “updated variant” of a virus known as Petya or Petrwrap, a ransomware that locks computer files and forces users to pay a designated sum to regain access.

But analysts at cyber security firm Kaspersky Labs said they had traced the infections to “a new ransomware that has not been seen before”. The “NotPetya” attack had hit 2,000 users in Russia, Ukraine, Poland, France, Italy, the UK, Germany and the US, Kaspersky said.

#Microsoft #virus_informatique #Ransomware #petya #notpetya #extorsion #bitcoin #tchernobyl

Chernobyl, Worst Nuclear Disaster in the History - Documentary

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31 Years Later, the Lights Come Back on in Chernobyl · Global Voices
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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.

Voir aussi ce lien cité dans l’article
▻https://www.facebook.com/Napromieniowani

#nucléaire #ukraine #tchernobyl #lumière

Alert! Radioactive boars on two continents | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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As Reuters reports, when human beings evacuated the exclusion zone, boars descended from their mountain homes. In typically porcine fashion, they began to eat whatever could be swallowed, including lots of “radioactive vegetation.”

(…) In the Czech Republic—as reported, again, by Reuters—radioactive boars are injecting a hint of danger into the consumption of goulash. The problem is that Czech boars eat false truffles. False truffles contain cesium-137, which traveled west on the wind during the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

(…) In recent years, a full 47 percent of boars tested—and they all must be tested—were judged too radioactive for inclusion in hearty, regional stews.

#sangliers_radioactifs #nucléaire #fukushima #tchernobyl #it_has_begun

30 Years Later – In the forbidden Chernobyl zone

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26 April 1986: an explosion and fire at the Chernobyl Power Plant released large quantities of radioactive particles into the atmosphere. The Chernobyl disaster was the worst nuclear power plant accident in history in terms of cost and casualties. The 30 km Zone of Alienation was established soon after the disaster. It is an officially designated exclusion area around the site of the damaged nuclear reactor.

Photographer André Joosse visited the Zone several times to document the abandoned villages, the city of Pripyat and the Nuclear Power Plant site. On this website you can see his photographs of Chernobyl, 30 years after the disaster.

#tchernobyl #nucléaire #photographie

Ukraine Looking to Turn Chernobyl Into a Massive Solar Farm
▻http://e360.yale.edu/digest/chernobyl_solar_farm/4771

Chernobyl could soon start producing energy again — this time as a massive solar farm. Thirty years after the meltdown of the nuclear power plant, Ukraine is looking for investors for a 1-gigawatt solar farm in the 1,000-square-mile exclusion zone, where radiation levels remain too high for farming or forestry, reported Bloomberg. The project would cost $1.1 billion and transform Chernobyl into one of world’s largest solar installations. Government officials say that two U.S. investment firms and four Canadian energy companies have expressed interest in the project. The European Bank for Reconstruction & Development is also considering financing the solar farm. “The Chernobyl site has really good potential for renewable energy,” Ukraine’s environment minister Ostap Semerak said. “We already have high-voltage transmission lines that were previously used for the nuclear stations, the land is very cheap, and we have many people trained to work at power plants.”

#Tchernobyl #énergie_solaire #facepalm

The complete story of the #Chernobyl accident in photographs
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On the Consequences of Chernobyl

The main question about the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, as historian David Marples puts it, is “how many people did it actually affect through death, illness, or evacuation?” My book, The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl, suggests that this question might have become impossible to answer.

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#nucléaire #Tchernobyl #livre #invisibilité

Lien vers le livre:

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Non, Tchernobyl n’est pas devenu une réserve naturelle
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Dans la région de #Tchernobyl, l’exposition aux #rayonnements_ionisants a provoqué des dommages génétiques et augmenté les taux de #mutation pour nombre d’organismes. À ce jour, nous n’avons que très peu d’éléments montrant que certains d’entre eux pourraient évoluer pour devenir plus résistants aux #radiations.

L’histoire de l’évolution des organismes est essentielle pour déterminer le degré de leur vulnérabilité au regard des radiations. Dans nos travaux, les espèces ayant montré au fil des années de hauts degrés de mutation – comme l’hirondelle rustique (Hirundo rustica), l’hypolaïs ictérine (Hippolais icterina) et la fauvette à tête noire (Sylvia atricapilla) – sont aussi celles dont les populations déclinent à Tchernobyl. Notre hypothèse est que les espèces diffèrent dans leur capacité à restaurer l’#ADN ; ceci concerne à la fois les taux de substitutions nucléotidiques et la sensibilité à la radiation pour les zones étudiées à Tchernobyl.

Tout comme les survivants des bombardements atomiques d’Hiroshima et Nagasaki, les oiseaux et les mammifères de la région souffrent de cataracte et présentent des cerveaux plus petits. Ce sont les conséquences directes de l’exposition aux substances radioactives présentes dans l’air, l’eau et la nourriture. Comme les personnes dont on traite un cancer par radiothérapie, la plupart des oiseaux ont des spermatozoïdes déformés. Dans les zones les plus touchées, près de 40 % des oiseaux mâles sont totalement stériles, ne possédant aucun sperme ou seulement des spermatozoïdes morts en période de reproduction.

Des tumeurs, vraisemblablement cancéreuses, s’observent sur les oiseaux présents dans les zones les plus irradiées. On constate de même des anomalies dans le développement de certaines plantes et insectes.

Étant donné le caractère évident de perturbations d’ordre génétique sur les individus, il n’est pas surprenant que les populations de nombreux animaux présents dans les zones les plus touchées aient décliné. À Tchernobyl, les principaux groupes que nous avons suivis s’avéraient moins nombreux dans les zones les plus contaminées. Ceci concerne les oiseaux, les papillons, les libellules, les abeilles, les sauterelles, les araignées ainsi que de petits et grands mammifères.

on pensait que les animaux savaient lire une carte
légende :

Carte de la région de Tchernobyl (Ukraine). Notons les caractéristiques de grande hétérogénéité de la radioactivité dans la région. Les zones faiblement touchées offrent un refuge pour la faune. Shestopalov, V.M., 1996. Atlas of Chernobyl exclusion zone. Kiev : Ukrainian Academy of Science.

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Ruined #Chernobyl nuclear plant will remain a threat for 3,000 years | McClatchy DC
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30 years since Chernobyl may seem like a long time, but it’s really just the start

Below reactor’s ruins is a 2,000-ton radioactive mass that can’t be removed

Why it’s time to dispel the myths about nuclear power | Science | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2016/apr/11/time-dispel-myths-about-nuclear-power-chernobyl-fukushima

scare-stories about Chernobyl and Fukushima are too often employed as an empty rebuttal by those unwilling to countenance the situation we face.

Nuclear energy is complicated, has drawbacks, and like any form of energy production it has risks. But it is also clean, safe and hugely efficient.

OK OK donc Fukushima c’est rien qu’une histoire à faire peur, et Tchernobyl c’était rien — mais pourquoi ranger cet article dans #science et pas dans #propagande #nucléaire ?

#Wild Chernobyl - The Boston Globe
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What happens to the environment when humans disappear? Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Reuters photographer Vasily Fedosenko documented booming populations of wolf, elk and other wildlife in the vast contaminated zone in Belarus and Ukraine. On April 26, 1986, a botched test at the nuclear plant in Ukraine, then a Soviet republic, sent clouds of smouldering #radioactive material across large swathes of Europe. Over 100,000 people had to abandon the area permanently, leaving native #animals the sole occupants of a cross-border “exclusion zone” roughly the size of Luxembourg.—By Reuters

#Tchernobyl

Tchernobyl, 30 ans déjà - par Philippe Perchoc

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Ce matin, une conférence sur les 30 ans de Tchernobyl au Parlement européen. On y découvre que l’UE, qu’on aime tellement critiquer, s’est engagée fortement pour confiner les radiations et pour aider les populations locales (briefing par votre serviteur).

Et pour vous donner une idée de ce qu’est Tchernobyl, cette vidéo-drone. Car Tchernobyl a créé la première distorsion visible du temps humain avant le réchauffement climatique : c’est la première fois que l’homme accomplit un acte inhumain qui empêche le futur de s’écouler en passé. Après Tchernobyl, il n’y a pas de futur et de passé, mais un futur qui devient un présent continu d’au moins 20 000 ans.
Et agir en hommes face à cette inhumanité, c’est notre devoir, n’est-ce pas ?

Voir le brieffing :

▻http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/BRIE/2016/580887/EPRS_BRI%282016%29580887_EN.pdf

et la courte vidéo signalé par Philippe :

Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl
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#tchernobyl #nucléaire