Chernobyl 25 Years Later
Chornobyl's legacy: Remembering Oleksandra, liquidator category No. 3
CBC Radio clip, April 25, 2011 - Montreal couple remembers Chernobyl - Alexander & Olena Kulishov recall scenes of panic in Kiev, 100 kms from the blast.
"Black-clad Orthodox priests sang solemn hymns, Ukrainians lit thin wax candles and a bell tolled 25 times for the number of years that have passed since the Chernobyl disaster as the world began marking the anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in the world" ...... read more.
Published on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 by CommonDreams.org
"With the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant catastrophe having arrived, and with the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear complex still unfolding and radioactivity continuing to spew from those plants some people are asking: can nuclear power be made safe?
The answer is no. Nuclear power can never be made safe.
This was clearly explained by Admiral Hyman Rickover, the “father” of the U.S. nuclear navy and in charge of construction of the first nuclear power plant in the nation, Shippingport in Pennsylvania. Before a committee of Congress, as he retired from the navy in 1982, Rickover warned of the inherent lethality of nuclear power and urged that “we outlaw nuclear reactors.”
The basic problem: radioactivity." Read the full article.
Nuclear Power Can Never Be Made Safe
My mother, Oleksandra Yaroshchuk (née Havryk), worked in Chornobyl from 1989 to 1991 as a "liquidator category No. 3" with the nuclear disaster cleanup crew.
In 1992, she died at the age of 52.
Ihor Kruchyk is a journalist with The Ukrainian Weekly in Kiev, Ukraine. On the 25th anniversary of the reactor disaster, he reflects on his mother's life and death in the shadow of Chornobyl.
"A million people have died so far as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear plant accident, explains Dr. Janette Sherman, toxicologist and contributing editor of the book Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment. Published by the New York Academy of Sciences, the book, authored by Dr. Alexey Yablokov, Dr. Vassily Nesterenko and Dr. Alexey Nesterenko, examined medical records now available--which expose as a lie the claim of the International Atomic Energy Commission that perhaps 4,000 people may die as a result of Chernobyl. "
from Enviro Video - Media Designed to Empower People
Chernobyl: A Million Casualties
Health and Trust: Hard Lessons from Chernobyl and Fukushima
By Jim Harding, April 15, 2011