As Fukushima memory fades, Japan’s nuclear power proponents hope for reset
Tokyo, Japan Reuters For the first time since a massive earthquake and tsunami crippled the Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011 and killed nearly 16,000 people, Japan held no state memorial for the disaster anniversary on Friday. On the eve of the 11th anniversary of the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, some ruling party lawmakers […]
“Nobody is not afraid”: Chernobyl pilot recalls his fear 33 years ago
Chernobyl, UkraineReuters More than three decades after he flew his helicopter above the radioactive volcano that was Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor number four, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident, Mykola Volkozub recalls how he feared for his life. Now 87, the Ukrainian military pilot returned to Chernobyl last month for the first time since […]
HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ gets mixed reviews from disaster’s survivors
Chernobyl, UkraineReuters Critics and viewers on both sides of the Atlantic have lined up to acclaim Chernobyl, a dramatisation of events surrounding the world’s worst nuclear accident – but the reactions of some of the survivors are less rose-tinted. Sergii Parashyn, the then chairman of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s Communist Party Committee, said the […]