Heavy Water: A film for Chernobyl. Produced by Sevent Art Productions A film by David Bickerstaff and Phil Grabsky Poetry by Mario Petrucci "more an art piece than a documentary but is powerfully imagined" - The Telegraph "every frame is a stunning photograph in itself" - The Times "haunting images of the devastation" - Radio Times "this is powerful stuff" - Critic's Choice, Time Out "Both an exquisite indictment of tyranny's disregard for technology, and an articulate elegy for human rights.
Magnificent" - The Guardian Press Comments for Petrucci's book length poem. “Heartfelt, ambitious and alive”- Jackie Kay, The Daily Telegraph “Weighty and painful. Powerful material…” - Poetry Review “Radiates compassion” - The Observer HD video | 16:9 | 52 min On April 26th, 1986, reactor four at Chernobyl nuclear power station explodes, sending an enormous radioactive cloud over Northern Ukraine and neighbouring Belarus. Poetry read by David Bickerstaff, Francine Brody, Juliet Stevenson, David Threlfall and Samuel West. English Russia » Lost City of Chernobyl. “In matters nuclear one thing is certain: there is no protection in an iron curtain.” A letter in The Times May 3rd, 1986. On the 26th of April 1986 shortly after midnight, to be precise, at 1:23 GMT, there occurred near the Ukrainian town of Chornobyl a tremendous explosion at a huge nuclear power plant, followed by a gradual meltdown of the reactor No. 4.
Chornobyl is situated 80 miles north-west of Kiev, the ancient capital of Ukraine and the Soviet Union’s third largest city. It was by far the worst nuclear reactor accident ever, which immediately sent a radioactive cloud across neighbouring Byelorussia, Poland and the Baltic Republics towards Scandinavia. Within days, borne by shifting winds, radioactive mists wafted beyond Soviet borders and spread across most of Europe causing anxiety, apprehension and fear. Nuclear Reactionaries - T. A. Frank. Grand old particles: Republican Senators Jim Bunning of Kentucky and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee at a 2009 hearing on nuclear power.
Photo: Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images. Fukushima... Chernobyl Legacy. Adam Higginbotham: Chernobyl 20 years on. It's late and growing colder; darkness gathers in the stairwell, and nothing breaks the silence but the grinding of broken glass underfoot.
Outside, the February snow has settled deeply around a Ferris wheel no one has ever ridden; the clock above the municipal swimming pool remains frozen at six minutes to 12. Long after everyone had left, the streetlights still came on every night, and his secret visits to the empty town would frighten Valeri Sluckij a little. But now, at 59, he is used to it: 'It's hard,' he says. 'I spent the best years of my youth here.
But you can get used to anything.' Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Current Background Radiation Levels - Chernobyl and Eastern Europe Blog. Chernobyl Exclusion Zone 2008-2009. My visit to the nuclear wasteland of Chernobyl & Pripyat. Viva Ukraine. : pics. These photographs of present-day Chernobyl are utterly haunting. 'Chernobyl Baby' Explains Life In A Fallout Zone. Nastassia Astrasheuskaya joined Reuters as a correspondent in December 2010.
She was born on Aug. 31, 1989, in the Belarussian city of Mogilev, three years after the nuclear disaster at the Ukrainian Chernobyl, 500 km (320 miles) away. By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) - I wasn't even born when Chernobyl blew up, but its deadly legacy haunted my childhood. One girl at my school had six fingers on one hand. My thyroid gland is permanently enlarged and the fear of cancer will never leave me or my family.
Mario Petrucci. Resurgence. WHAT POETRY CAN DO FOR US Resurgence Review, 2004 Philip Gross hears the living voices of Chernobyl.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Heavy Water: a poem for Chernobyl Mario Petrucci, Enitharmon, London, 2004. £8.95. Half Life: Poems for Chernobyl Mario Petrucci, Heaventree Press, Coventry. 2004. £5 Voices from Chernobyl ed. Svetlana Alexievitch, Aurum Press, London 1999 (out of print) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mario Petrucci – Interviews. MARIO PETRUCCI. The Eternities of Poetry An interview with Dmytro Drozdovsyki [Kyiv, Ukraine] How did you start writing?
For what reason? What was your road into the Land of Literature? As a child I never thought of myself as a potential author.
New Safe Confinement. Chernobyl: the true scale of the accident. Sweden after Chernobyl. This paper was prepared for the Eleventh Annual Symposium of the Uranium Institute in London, September 2-4, 1986.
PUBLIC OPIONION AND NUCLEAR ENERGY: Sweden after Chernobyl Hans L Zetterberg. Chernobyl haunts engineer who alerted world - April 28, 1996. Background (on) radiation. Chernobyl 'caused Sweden cancers' More than 800 people in northern Sweden may have developed cancer as a result of the fallout of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, a new study claims.
Swedish scientists said the "Chernobyl effect" was the only likely explanation for 849 cancer cases they came across. But their findings met with scepticism from some other experts who think the radiation fallout in Sweden was not likely to cause such a rise in cases. A radioactive cloud swept across north Europe after the disaster in Ukraine. The study monitored cancer cases among more than 1.1 million people exposed to radioactive fallout in northern Sweden between 1988 and 1996.
Chernobyl radioactive waste returned. Collecting soil samples from areas contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster.
To confront the IAEA with the realities of nuclear power we placed a250kg concrete container containing two 1kg radioactive samples intothe lobby of the UN agency building in Vienna. To ensure public safety, thesoil samples delivered to the IAEA were placed in a container with concrete and lead shielding. But where the samples were collected there are no such safeguards foranyone. Chernobyl death toll grossly underestimated. Feature story - April 18, 2006 A new Greenpeace report has revealed that the full consequences of the Chernobyl disaster could top a quarter of a million cancer cases and nearly 100,000 fatal cancers.
In the cancer ward of a Kiev hospital in the Ukraine, 19-year-old Elena is being treated for her second case of thyroid cancer in just 3 years Our report involved 52 respected scientists and includesinformation never before published in English. Chernobylhealthreport. "Liquidators" Endured Chernobyl, 25 Years Ago. Photograph by Igor Kostin, Sygma/Corbis This story is part of a special series that explores energy issues. For more, visit The Great Energy Challenge . Inside Chernobyl. In the wan light of a snowy spring morning, belongings scattered on the floor of an abandoned kindergarten speak of a time before the children of Pripyat lost their innocence.
Musty sandals and ballet slippers for tiny feet. Cardboard pictures of Lenin as a young boy and as a youthful leader—the Soviet equivalent of baseball cards. In the next room, dolls in various states of dress and dismemberment, lolling on metal cots where the children once napped. Petrified ruin: Chernobyl, Pripyat and the death of the city Excerpt from Paul Dobraszczyk On the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl, the ongoing crisis of Fukushima’s reactor breakdown has raised questions worldwide about the desirability of nuclear power, those questions are already fading.
At the same time it is apparent that the research into the impact of the social, biological and ecological dimensions of ‘Chernobyl’ has not been searching enough and that we have not really grasped the full implications of what knowledge there is. When the supposed “process of modernisation” itself is what threatens to ruin our cities (and ecosystems) – what can dystopias (real or imagined) teach us about loss, rejuvenation and the possibilities for a better future? View along a first-floor corridor in one of Pripyat's former schools. Source: Author. A second life for the inhabitants of Chernobyl.
20 years after the disaster at Chernobyl, Ochsana Naumovitch has not forgotten a single detail from that day, 26 April 1986. Although she and her family had lived in Pripyat for 10 years, a few kilometres from the nuclear power plant, the explosion of Reactor 4 was to change their life: "My husband, who worked at the plant, was off that day. He was fixing the kitchen," Ochsana recalls. "I was in the transistor factory. Slavutych. David McMillan: Chernobyl Photographs.