Exploring the Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster

Exploring the Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster David Moon University of York, UK Environmental History Workshop Urals Federal State University Ekaterinburg 15 July 2016

26 April 1986 Explosion at Reactor no. 4, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station • https: //en. wikipedia. org/wi ki/File: Chernobyl_Disaster. j pg https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/File: Chernobyl_Disaster. jpg

The Chernobyl Radioactive Cloud over Europe http: //news. bbc. co. uk/1/shared/spl/hi/guides/456900/456957/ html/nn 3 page 1. stm

Robots and biorobots employed in ‘liquidating’ consequences of disaster Photo credit: Anna Olenenko http: //news. nationalgeographic. com /news/energy/2011/04/110426/cher nobyl-25 -years-liquidators-pictures/

Monument: to those who saved the world тим, хто врятував світ 2006 Photo credit: Anna Olenenko

Group in front of Sarcophagus, 2016 Photo credit: Voicu Sucala

‘New Safe Confinement’ https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Chernobyl_New_Safe_Confinement#/media/File: Newsafe-confinement-April-2015 -IMG_8575. jpg

Pripiat’ Photo credits: Voicu Sucala

Pripiat’: lost Soviet world Photo credits: Voicu Sucala

Pripiat’: View from Apartment block roof Photo credits: Anna Olenenko, Voicu Sucala

Pripiat’: the return of the forest Photo credit: Voicu Sucala

Red Forest, Pripiat’, 1986 http: //chornobyl. in. ua/wp-content/uploads/redforest. gif

Photo credit: Anna Olenenko

Catfish in cooling pond Photo credit: Anna Olenenko

• R A D I A T I O N https: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Red_Forest#/media/File: Chernobyl_radiation_map_1996. svg

• R A D I A T I O N: • Ian Haslam, Radiation Safety Officer, U of Manchester • monitoring radiation in zone Photo credit: Voicu Sucala

Resetter: Ivanovich, aged 80 Village of Paryshev, nr. Chernobyl Photo credit: Voicu Sucala

Our Seminar, National University of Kyiv. Mohyla Academy Keynote speaker: Natalia Baranovska Photo credit: Voicu Sucala

Спасибо за внимания! Photo credit: Voicu Sucala