Kiev: A Ukrainian Minister has claimed that the Russian troops who were posted at the Exclusion Zone of the now-defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant were exposed to high levels of radiation due to which they have at the most a year to live. Chernobyl, the site of the world’s worst nuclear accident, fell to the […]
By Pramod K Nayar What does a nuclear landscape look like? First, obviously, it looks like a city smashed to smithereens. Hiroshima-Nagasaki devastated, and buildings razed to the ground. A man’s shadow imprinted into the concrete when he was vaporised during the explosion. Flash of Light, Wall of Fire and Rain of Ruin, the two […]
New Delhi: A radiation spike has been recorded near Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant which has been seized by Russian forces, monitoring data shows, BBC reported. Invading Russian troops took control of the plant — the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster in 1986 — on Thursday, Ukraine said. Radiation levels increased about 20-fold on […]