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"Le Russie di Cernobyl" per sostenere, oltre i confini statali, le terre e le popolazioni vittime della stessa sventura nucleare: la Bielorussia (Russia bianca), paese in proporzione più colpito; la Russia, con varie regioni rimaste contaminate da Cernobyl, Brjansk in testa, e altre zone con inquinamento radioattivo sparse sul suo immenso territorio; l'Ucraina, culla storica della Rus' di Kiev (da cui si sono sviluppate tutte le successive formazioni statali slavo-orientali) e della catastrofe stessa.

22/04/16

CHERNOBYL SNAP-SHOTS: A HISTORY FROZEN IN RADIATION 30 YEARS AGO




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A flower finding purchase in the contaminated wasteland in Pripyat. Photo: Nils Bøhmer

PRIPYAT, Ukraine – This year has brought some sobering anniversaries. Everyone likes a round number and 2016 has handed down a straight flush of elegiac reports on disasters past: the 30-year marker of the Chernobyl explosion of April 26, 1986, and last month, the five-year remembrance of the meltdowns in Fukushima Japan.

Rather than offer any comforting capstones to these events, however, reports from the areas of these calamities continue to tick off fresh, unforeseen consequences of the irresponsible, or just plain naïve, uses of nuclear power.

In short, these disasters – unlike many other industrial and environmental catastrophes of our time – seem to have no real endpoint. While Fukushima grapples with another dump of radioactive water into the sea, Chernobyl is still, three decades on, having trouble securing radiation within the sarcophagus of cement dumped over the No 4 reactor to squelch radioactive releases.

Bellona’s executive director and nuclear physicist Nils Bøhmer has taken his camera to the exclusion zone to document the freeze-frame of history to find much of the industry-scape virtually unchanged since the days following the catastrophe (published below this article).

“Disaster overwhelms all reactions that were normal in a society before it takes place,” Sergei Mirnyi, who was 27 at the time Chernobyl exploded and who worked as a liquidator after the disaster, told Bellona in an interview. “The actual disaster starts after the CNN moment, and the camera crews pack up and go – then the people are left alone and alienated.”

For now, more than 200 tons of uranium remains inside Chernobyl’s No 4 reactor, which exploded at 1:23 am that April morning during a safety test.


Data: 21.04.2016
Fonte: www.bellona.ru

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