Chernobyl
On 26 April 1986, the Chernobyl Disaster occured, releasing immense quantities of radioactive material for days before it could be contained. It is considered the worst nuclear power plant accident in history: the contamination spread across the former USSR territories and reached even Western Europe. The radiation resulted in lasting pollution of the areas and had a massive impact on the health of people. We investigated this event and wrote blog posts sharing how the memory of this event is contested and remembered: 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 nuclear 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.