Section: New Zealand
Nuclear blast’s ‘desperately sad’ legacy
ANALYSIS: As Ukraine marks 30 years since the Chernobyl disaster, the health effects are still being felt by the people of the region. …read more Source: Radio New Zealand
How scientists are keeping Chernobyl’s radiation contained
Engineers at Chernobyl, Ukraine, are close to installing a new state-of-the-art protective shelter over the remains of reactor number 4, the site of the worst nuclear power plant accident in history.The New Safe Confinement, a 30,000-tonne… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Chernobyl disaster: This is how scientists are keeping the radiation contained
Engineers at Chernobyl, Ukraine, are close to installing a new state-of-the-art protective shelter over the remains of reactor no. 4, the site of the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. …read more Source:...
A look at the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in numbers
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) ” Telling the story of Chernobyl in numbers 30 years later involves dauntingly large figures and others that are even more vexing because they’re still unknown. A look at numbers that hint at the scope of the… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
US flies F-22s to Romania as show of strength to Russia
CONSTANTA, Romania (AP) ” The U.S. Air Force has flown in two F-22 Raptor fighter jets to Romania as a show of strength to deter Russian intervention in Ukraine.The fighter jets landed Monday at the Mihail Kogalniceanu air base,… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
3 people killed in eastern Ukraine amid renewed fighting
MOSCOW (AP) ” The Ukrainian government says three troops have been killed in the volatile eastern Ukraine over the past 24 hours.Oleksander Motuzyanik from the presidential administration told a briefing Sunday that what appears… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Moscow defends ruling to suspend Tatar legislature in Crimea
MOSCOW (AP) ” A spokesman for President Vladimir Putin has rejected U.S. criticism about a recent decision to suspend a Crimean Tatar legislative body.The Russian justice ministry earlier this week suspended the Tatar Mejlis after… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
AP Exclusive: Ukraine children eat food tainted by Chernobyl
ZALYSHANY, Ukraine (AP) ” Viktoria Vetrova knows the risk her four children take in drinking milk from the family’s two cows and eating dried mushrooms and berries from the forest.But the cash-strapped Ukrainian government canceled… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Looking back: 30 years of photographing Chernobyl
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) ” Efrem Lukatsky, a Kiev-based photographer for The Associated Press, recalls the confusion and anxiety of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear power plant explosion, the world’s worst nuclear accident.___The Chernobyl… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
Ukraine president: Sanctions against Russia must remain
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) ” Ukraine’s president says sanctions against Russia must stay in place as long as hostilities in eastern Ukraine still continue.President Petro Poroshenko said he and Romanian President Klaus Iohannis agreed… …read more Source: The New Zealand...
