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Add your voice! Join Nobel laureates to say no to nuclear war Sign the petition! The risk that nuclear weapons are used in Eastern Europe grows more acute as the violence in Ukraine descends into greater levels of despair, depravity, and uncertainty. Mobilizing public opinion – engaging everyday citizens who until now may not have worried…
Read MoreChornobyl satellite town under siege
The State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone management is reporting that the Chornobyl nuclear power plant satellite city of Slavutych is under attack. “Right now the enemy is trying to take the city of Slavutych by storm. Blockbuster shelling is underway,” says the agency’s Facebook page. Checkpoints are under heavy artillery fire. The State…
Read MoreChornobyl laboratory attacked?
A laboratory on the Chornobyl nuclear site that researches radioactive waste management has been “robbed and destroyed” by the occupying Russian military forces, according to the State Agency of Ukraine for Exclusion Zone Management. (Державне агентство України з управління зоною відчуження) The lab was created in 2015 in collaboration with the European Union and at…
Read MoreRepublicans offer Russian uranium ban
Pivot to increase mining on domestic and Indigenous land In response to Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s February 24th invasion of sovereign Ukraine, the Biden administration quickly martialed global economic sanctions against Russian aggression by targeting its oil, coal and liquified gas imports. But at the behest of the US nuclear industry lobby, the Nuclear Energy…
Read MoreUnexploded “Smerch” rocket threatens Ukrainian nuclear facility
Combat operations continue in the area of the NSI “Neutron Source” facility. Upon examination of the facility in Kharkiv, personnel found what looks like an unexploded rocket of the multiple launch rocket system 9K58 “Smerch”. The presence of this ordnance poses danger of a new explosion in the immediate vicinity of the nuclear installation. Work…
Read MoreThe Chernobyl tinder box: War increases fire risks
Forest fires have again erupted around the defunct and radioactively-contaminated Chernobyl nuclear power facility. Fires reloft and redistribute radionuclides trapped in soil and the forest litter, which is taking much longer to decay than it should, providing further fuel for fires. When one reactor core of the 4-reactor Chernobyl complex melted down and exploded in…
Read MoreChornobyl shift change, but some don’t leave
Some Chornobyl workers at the nuclear plant now occupied by Russian forces have finally been allowed to go off shift, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency, but other staff apparently refused to leave. After working for almost one month straight, since the February 24 occupation by Russian military began, “a partial rotation of operational…
Read MoreCruise missiles hit Rivne
Russia’s defense ministry has said it hit a Ukrainian military installation in the northwestern city of Rivne with cruise missiles on Monday, raising fears for the safety and security of Rivne’s four-reactor nuclear power plant, the second largest nuclear power plant in Ukraine and the biggest power station of any kind in western Ukraine. As…
Read MoreThe current situation at Zaporizhzhia
While the situation at Chornobyl remains precarious, given the absence of shift changes and the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine’s (SNRIU) total loss of contact with the staff there, the situation at Zaporizhzhia seems a little more transparent, although fraught with risk. As the SNRIU points out, the presence of ROSATOM personnel there is…
Read MoreThe current situation at Chornobyl
March 16 update from The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine The SNRIU continues informing on the state of the Chornobyl NPP. Until now, all Chornobyl NPP facilities, and facilities located in the Exclusion Zone are under the control of the aggressor country’s military. At present, the regulatory control over the state of nuclear and…
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