Why Is Chernobyl Still Radioactive and Hiroshima Is Not?
If you think of the two most deadly nuclear accidents, you will definitely remember the bomb thrown at Japanese cities and the Chernobyl explosion. Both of these disasters have caused thousands of deaths. However, Hiroshima is populated now, while the Chernobyl exclusion zone is still…
Chernobyl and the Cost of Lies
The whole world knows about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion. Its scale and consequences are still the largest in human history. What makes this disaster even more dramatic is that the explosion was caused by humans. The deaths and destruction are the cost of…
Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 30 Years Later
Chernobyl 30 Years Later More than 30 years have passed since the most dreadful nuclear disaster in the world, but the planet still remembers this accident as the worst catastrophe humanity has ever seen. We are talking about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion that…
Alexander Akimov and Chernobyl
When we talk about the events that have changed the world, we always remember the Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion. It is the worst human-induced accident that the Earth has ever seen, to say the least of it. Hundreds of people died directly after the…
Abandoned Amusement Park in Chernobyl
There are a couple of sites that are considered to be the symbols of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, and an amusement park near Chernobyl is certainly one of them. It was a typical Ukrainian amusement park with quite typical attractions: swing boats (Russian swings), paratrooper…