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Chernobyl

On 26 April 1986, the Chernobyl Disaster occured. It is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history. We reveal personal experiences of liquidators, look at today’s perception of the accident in Ukraine and Belarus and set up a Tweetology-Timeline of the catastrophe and its aftermath.

“People Were Afraid to Shake our Hands”

What does the tragic accident of Chernobyl still means for us today? Elena takes a deeper look into the current impact.

The Shadow of Chernobyl in Ukraine – From Secrets to Facts

After 30 years still, the tragedy of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant shows an impact throughtout the decades.

Tents, Silence and Orange Masks – the Memories of a Chernobyl Liquidator

Thousand of men were conscripted into the Chernobyl area to “liquidate” the released radiation. Vsevolod was one of them and remembers.

The Chernobyl Bird / A Live-Tweet of a Nuclear Disaster

If the Chernobyl Catastrophe happend today - this is how we imagine a Twitter-feed might look like.