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19 unusual facts about Chernobyl disaster


Aaron Bank

The consequence could be a Chernobyl-type accident, whereby the damaged plant would spew radioactivity into the atmosphere and contaminate thousands of square miles, including the nearby Los Angeles basin.

Alexander Hleb

His father had volunteered to help knock down uninhabitable houses in Ukraine as the result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

American Belarussian Relief Organization

The American Belarussian Relief Organization (ABRO) is an American non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children located in areas of Belarus affected by the Chernobyl disaster of April 26, 1986.

Čačersk

It is located in an area which is highly contaminated due to the fallout of the Chernobyl disaster.

Chelnov

The setting, where a coal miner is caught in a nuclear accident, a hammer and sickle visible on the game's opening screen, and the game's title (Chernobyl is written チェルノブイリ in Japanese) led many to interpret the game as a tasteless parody of the Chernobyl disaster.

Crimean Atomic Energy Station

The station was inspected following the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, and was found to be located on a geologically volatile site.

Gerd Ludwig

Gerd Ludwig first photographed the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster for National Geographic Magazine in 1993, and then later in 2005.

Hans Joachim Schliep

From 1991 he was the coordinator and manager of the national Church Help for Chernobyl Children (since 1994: AG Hilfe für Tschernobylkinder).

Hugh Coveney

The family sailed around the world to raise €650,000 for the Chernobyl Children's Project, a charity which offers assistance to children affected by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Kennedy Goodkey

He was the first recipient of the Provost Writer's Award for his play Sarcophagus, about the Chernobyl disaster.

Les Parrott

Parrott has been part of the on-site support teams for worldwide disasters, including the Chernobyl disaster, and the September 11, 2001 attacks, and has been called on to counsel Marines returning from Iraq.

Lewis Lempereur-Palmer

His performance as a Ukrainian boy suffering from ill health owing to the fallout from the Chernobyl disaster won the praise of London's theatre critics, with The Stage calling it "a fantastically assured performance".

Mohamed Makhzangi

He was based in the Ukrainian city of Kiev at the time of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, and this formed the basis of his book Memories Of A Meltdown.

New York Eye and Ear Infirmary

As of 2009, the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary is working in partnership with "Project Chernobyl", to diagnose and treat thyroid cancer associated with radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster, which can take decades to develop.

Pavlo Lebedyev

He is participant of liquidation of the Chernobyl disaster consequences and the Merited Economist of Ukraine (2011).

Peter A. Stott

He was awarded a PhD by Imperial College London for work on atmospheric modelling of the environmental consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.

Stephanie Cooke

In 1980 she moved to McGraw-Hill in New York as a reporter for Nucleonics Week, NuclearFuel and Inside N.R.C. In 1984 she transferred to London and two years later covered the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster for Business Week and Nucleonics Week.

Victoria Koblenko

Another case in point is her visit to the site of the Chernobyl disaster, in her capacity of goodwill ambassador for a local organization.

Viktor Goncharenko

He is the son of Mikhail Hancharenka, a Belarussian engineer who died in 1993 in the wake of the infamous Chernobyl disaster and who was a big football fan.


Artemy Troitsky

In 1986 Troitsky was one of the organizers of the "Account No. 904" rock concert, modelled on Live Aid, to raise funds for the victims of the Chernobyl disaster, the first such concert in the Soviet Union.

Belene Nuclear Power Plant

Concerns regarding the construction of the plant have mainly been felt in nearby Romania, with articles in the newspapers such as Cotidianul, România Liberă and Ziarul even going as far as comparing the project with Chernobyl despite a new generation of VVER reactors is to be used, and not the cheaper graphite-moderated RBMK series like Chernobyl's.

Freda Meissner-Blau

The movement's profile received a significant boost after the Chernobyl disaster in April and government controversy over the government deployment of the Saab 35 Draken.

Jim Shepard

His recent collection, Like You'd Understand Anyway, includes stories about the Greek playwright Aeschylus, the Chernobyl disaster and the 1964 Alaska earthquake.

Krista van Velzen

In subsequent years, she was active in the 10 years after Chernobyl campaign and with the campaign by Czech environmentalists against the construction of the Temelín Nuclear Power Station.

Nanette Milne

She also became a trustee of the Aberdeen-Gomel Trust, formed after the Chernobyl disaster, and is still an active member of the Friends of Gomel.

Rebecca Harms

Chernobyl catastrophe; TORCH report (Rebecca Harms commissioned two UK scientists for an alternate report, entitled TORCH, to the disputed November 2005 IAEA report on the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster)

Twilight Struggle

Late War events, such as Chernobyl (preventing the Soviets deploying extra influence to a given region, usually Europe, that turn), the Iron Lady (reducing Soviet influence in western Europe), "Tear Down This Wall", and Solidarity, help the USA to expand her influence in Europe, especially the key battleground state of Poland, and the unrest in Soviet-aligned Eastern Europe becomes more severe as well.

Volodymyr Nechyporuk

He was first-category participant in liquidation of consequences of the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

Walter Wallmann

The ministry was established by chancellor Helmut Kohl on June 6, 1986 in response to the Chernobyl disaster and formed from departments of the Ministries of the Interior, of Agriculture and of Health.