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What we made: a nuclear wasteland

Posted by bex — 26 September 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

London rapper Example doesn't just take his music to the edge - he also takes it to deserted, radioactively contaminated post-nuclear zones. Now he's released a documentary about his journey to Chernobyl, explaining why he thinks the future shouldn't be nuclear.

"I don't think anyone who's been here can be for nuclear power," says rapper Example, looking around at empty cots and babies' gas masks in a disintegrating schoolroom near Chernobyl.

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Chernobyl: "Never again"

Last edited 26 April 2006 at 8:00am
Pictures in an abandoned kindergarten in Prypyat, only a few miles from Chernobyl

Pictures in an abandoned kindergarten in Prypyat, only a few miles from Chernobyl

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The Chernobyl catastrophe - consequences on human health

Last edited 18 April 2006 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
18 April, 2006

Summary

In the past twenty years it has become clear, that nuclear energy conceals dangers, in some aspects, even greater than atomic weapons: the ejecta from this one reactor exceeded the radioactive contamination caused by the nuclear weapons used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki by one hundred times.

It has become clear that one nuclear reactor can contaminate half of the Earth and that no longer, not in one single country, could citizens be assured that the state will have the forethought and wisdom to protect them from nuclear misfortunes.

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Fallout: the human cost of nuclear catastrophe

Posted by bex — 5 April 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Fallout: the human cost of nuclear catastrophe

Chernobyl fallout exhibition - Annya


A photographic exhibition to mark the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster

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BNFL sets nuclear timebomb ticking on the anniversary of the Chernoybl disaster

Last edited 26 April 2002 at 8:00am
26 April, 2002

Despite international opposition two armed British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) ships set sail from Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria this morning, on the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster (1). The two vessels are bound for Japan to collect nuclear material containing enough plutonium to build 50 nuclear bombs. The dangerous cargo is to be delivered to the controversial Sellafield nuclear plant, which is currently the focus of a major campaign by Irish celebrities calling for its shutdown.

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15th Anniversary of Chernobyl focuses attention on nuclear risks in Wales

Last edited 25 April 2001 at 8:00am
25 April, 2001

15 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Ukraine, environmental organisations warned that Wales is living under the threat of another nuclear accident.

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Nuclear fallout

Last edited 13 January 2001 at 9:00am

Wylfa nuclear power

 

 

 

 

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Nuclear reactors replacing Chernobyl are "hazardous" says leaked government report

Last edited 30 November 2000 at 9:00am
30 November, 2000

Greenpeace called on the executive directors of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) meeting here today to delay their decision on whether to finance the two Chernobyl replacement reactors in the Ukraine, after a leaked government study revealed serious short-comings in the safety of the plants.

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