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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky receives his personal radiation shield kit donated by Israel's StemRad. (Courtesy)
December 8, 2022, 4:01 pm
Radiation protection from Kyiv to the moon: Israeli space tech to shield Ukrainians
StemRad founder joins former NASA astronaut Scott Kelly to gift Israeli-made anti-radiation vests to first responders, plus one for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
By Sharon Wrobel
A view of a crater from a night Russian rocket attack, near to damaged buildings in downtown Kharkiv, Ukraine, Aug. 27, 2022. (AP/Andrii Marienko)
August 28, 2022, 2:30 pm
Russian artillery hits near nuclear power plant, amid fears of disaster
Sitting on frontline between Russia and Ukraine, Zaporizhzhia plant has previously been damaged in fighting; iodine tablets distributed to residents in case of radiation leak
By AP
An aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, is seen in April 1986, made two to three days after the explosion in Chernobyl, Ukraine. In front of the chimney is the destroyed 4th reactor. (AP Photo)
March 9, 2022, 9:49 am
Radiation expert: Ukraine war could pose greater nuclear threat than Chernobyl
Radiation countermeasures expert Dr. Alla Shapiro, a Chernobyl first responder, says war conditions make it harder to save lives in event of attack on nuclear power plant
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Alla Shapiro, April 2021 (Olga Shapiro)
April 26, 2021, 11:41 am
On 35th Chernobyl anniversary, 1st responder reflects on the day after disaster
Alla Shapiro’s new memoir, ‘Doctor on Call,’ traces her journey from the wake of nuclear chaos in Ukraine to a career in the US developing radiation countermeasures for FDA
By Renee Ghert-Zand
An emergency alert issued by the Canadian province of Ontario reporting an unspecified “incident” at a nuclear plant is shown on a smartphone Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020. Ontario Power Generation later sent a message saying the alert “was sent in error." (Graeme Roy/The Canadian Press via AP)
January 13, 2020, 2:17 am
Canadian officials accidentally push nuclear alert to millions
Early morning cellphone alert warns residents of ‘incident at nuclear plant just east of Toronto,’ more than an hour later, officials send another message admitting error
By Rob Gillies
This undated photograph released by the United Arab Emirates' state-run WAM news agency, shows the under-construction Barakah nuclear power plant in Abu Dhabi's Western desert (Arun Girija/WAM via AP, File)
December 28, 2019, 8:18 pm
UAE’s nuclear program could lead to nuclear arms race, disaster, expert says
British nuclear scientist warns Abu Dhabi may be planning weapons program; even if not, threat from terrorists and natural disasters is not properly countered, he says
By ToI Staff and Agencies
In this grab taken from a footage provided by the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM press service, a Russian military band prepare to attend the funerals of five Russian nuclear engineers killed by a rocket explosion in Sarov, the closed city, located 370 kilometers (230 miles) east of Moscow, which has served as a base for Russia's nuclear weapons program since the late 1940s, Russia, Monday, Aug. 12, 2019. (Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM via AP)
August 13, 2019, 9:16 pm
Russian military orders village evacuation, then cancels it
Authorities sow confusion with mixed messages in Arctic region where radiation spiked after blast at nuclear site
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
A picture taken on November 9, 2011, shows buildings at a military base in the small town of Nyonoska in Arkhangelsk region of Russia. (AFP)
August 13, 2019, 6:01 pm
Residents of Russian village near nuclear blast site told to evacuate
Radiation levels in area up to 16 times the norm after Thursday explosion at Arctic facility kills 5 scientists testing ‘new weapons’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Chernobyl liquidators visiting the Knesset in Jerusalem. (Ksenia Svetlova)
June 13, 2019, 4:57 pm
1,500 Chernobyl ‘liquidators’ live in Israel. They are appallingly mistreated
A 2001 law promised housing, medical care to this group of heroes, but scandalously has never been implemented. Maybe interest sparked by the remarkable TV series will change that
By Ksenia Svetlova
Picture taken by the US Defense Nuclear Agency in 1980, shows the huge dome built over top of a crater left by one of the 43 nuclear nuclear tests over Runit Island in Enewetak in the Marshall Islands. (GIFF JOHNSON / US DEFENCE NUCLEAR AGENCY / AFP)
May 27, 2019, 1:44 am
On a Pacific island, a nuclear dome left behind by the US begins to crack
‘The coffin is leaking its poison into the surrounding environment,’ warns local official, amid growing fears of radioactive disaster
By Giff Johnson
Illustrative photo of a nuclear material sign (photo credit: Flickr/bburky CC BY-SA 2.0)
November 21, 2017, 1:07 pm
Russia denies nuclear accident after radioactive pollution
A representative of Rosatom nuclear corporation insists that dose ‘poses no danger to human health and lives’
By AFP
Illustrative: A view of a new shelter installed over the old sarcophagus housing the destroyed reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Chernobyl, Ukraine, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
November 10, 2017, 4:50 pm
Russia named as likely source of Europe radioactivity spike
Nuclear safety agency says release of isotope Ruthenium-106 poses no risk, likely came from between the Volga River and Ural Mountains; Russia denies it
By Angela Charlton
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