Energy in Ukraine

Europe’s natural gas crisis

Environment

Gas for heating is in short supply in many European countries as Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of interrupting supplies.

The World

Radiation, Risk and the “Linear No-Threshold” Model

Environment
The World

Chernobyl cancer study surpasses UN estimates

Arts, Culture & Media

Chernobyl Cleanup Worker: ‘We Thought We Were Saving a Country’

Japan Raises Severity Rating of Nuclear Crisis

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

Remembering Chernobyl after 25 years

Arts, Culture & Media

The nuclear crisis unfolding in Japan is taking place exactly 25 years after the worlds worst nuclear accident in Chernobyl. Brigid McCarthy reminds us of the scale of that disaster.

Japan: Managing a Disaster

A third explosion has rocked Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi power plant, in what is being called the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Residents living nearby have been evacuated and emergency workers were removed from the plant. With fears of radiation exposure and a full meltdown, workers are continuing to pump seawater on the reactors in an […]

The World

Forgetting Chernobyl

To commemorate ten years since the Chernobyl nuclear plant core reactor meltdown and radiation release in the Ukraine, Living on Earth sent producer Bruce Gellerman to the site of the world’s most serious nuclear plant disaster. Narrator Gellerman describes the terrain and the fears he enounters as he visits the entombed sarcophagus of the reactor, […]

The World

CHERNOBYL AT 11

For eleven years, the people of Beylorus and Ukraine have been living with the aftermath of Chernobyl; the greatest disaster in the history of nuclear power. On April 26th, 1986, at one-twenty-three in the morning, Chernobyl’s unit four reactor ripped apart in a series of explosions. The core burned for ten days, polluting virtually the […]

The World

Decontaminating Plants

Nature’s own ancient cures are being put to the test for the clean-up of chemical contaminant waste. The process of sun and plants purifying soil is called Phytomediation, and it’s being put to use from New Jersey to Chernobyl, Ukraine. Jeff Rice reports from Salt Lake City, Utah.