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Chernobyl New Safe Confinement (NSC)
2015-10-29 01:00:00| Power Technology
The Chernobyl New Safe Confinement (NSC) is an arch-shaped structural shelter being built to confine the radioactive material at Chernobyl Unit Four, protect the existing temporary object shelter (sarcophagus) from weather damage, and enable the deco
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Wildlife thriving around Chernobyl nuclear plant despite radiation
2015-10-05 18:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Wildlife is abundant around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear plant, despite the presence of radiation released by the worlds most catastrophic nuclear explosion nearly three decades ago, researchers have found. The number of elk, deer and wild boar within the Belarusian half of the Chernobyl exclusion zone today are around the same as those in four nearby uncontaminated nature reserves. Wolves, which are commonly hunted in the region because of their impact on livestock, were seven times...
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International research team finds thriving wildlife populations in Chernobyl
2015-10-05 12:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Aiken, S.C. - A team of international researchers, including James Beasley, assistant professor of wildlife ecology at the University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and the Warnell School Forestry and Natural Resources, has discovered abundant populations of wildlife at Chernobyl, the site of the 1986 nuclear accident that released radioactive particles into the environment and forced a massive evacuation of the human population. In the current issue of the journ…
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Forest fires may resurrect radioactive soil near Chernobyl
2015-02-10 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
United Press International: When the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in 1986, some 85 petabecquerels of radioactive cesium was released into the atmosphere and surrounding environs. Researchers believe somewhere between 2 and 8 PBq is still lingering in the soil and forest debris that surrounds the disaster site. Scientists have long feared that forest fires could send leftover radiation back into the atmosphere as radioactive leaves and other dead and dry plant material burn up -- traces of cesium wafting skyward...
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Forest fires around Chernobyl could release radiation, scientists warn
2014-11-29 18:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A consortium of Ukrainian and international scientists is making an urgent call for a $13.5m (8.28m) programme to prevent potentially catastrophic wildfires inside the exclusion zone surrounding Chernobyl's ruined nuclear power plant. The fear is that fires in the zone could release clouds of radioactive particles that are, at the moment, locked up in trees, held mainly in the needles and bark of Scots pines. The consortium says an automated fire detection and monitoring system and new firefighting...
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