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CHERNOBYL.
On April 26, 1986, at 1:23 a.m., Reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl trembled and exploded, causing a conflagration that spewed a radioactive cloud ten times as deadly as the radiation at Hiroshima. Many residents of the Ukrainian and Byelorussian towns downwind from the reactor absorbed radiation equivalent to a thousand chest X-rays. And yet the next day, ignorant of the dangers, children played in the fields and on the playgrounds; sixteen couples were married in Pripyat, just two miles from the burning reactor. One of the officials in charge proclaimed, "Panic is worse than radiation."
And then began the headaches, the nosebleeds, the nausea. Thousands of people died of cancers and other diseases in the years after the Chernobyl disaster. Had it not been for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and rescue workers who devoted themselves to the cleanup at Chernobyl and Pripyat, there is no telling how many more people might have died. What certainly died at Chernobyl was the Soviet pretense. With Chernobyl, perestroika began in earnest.
On a trip to Chernobyl a couple of years after the accident, I ...
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- Magazine article from: Art in America Vetrocq, Marcia E. March 1, 2007 700+ words
...photographs of Robert Polidori, New Orleans...explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear plant...Photographs by Robert Polidori" opened at the...Photographs by Robert Polidori," 18 were accommodated...of Pripyat and Chernobyl (50 by 60 inches...
- Robert Polidori at Pace/MacGill.(New York)
- Magazine article from: Art in America Leffingwell, Edward December 1, 2003 700+ words
...the silenced nuclear reactor that made Chernobyl famous. The room seems trashed beyond...mounted on Plexiglas that were part of Robert Polidori's recent exhibition, and among the...volume, Zones of Exclusion, Pripyat and Chernobyl (Gottingen, Germany, Steidl, 2003...
- New Orleans after the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori: through December...
- Magazine article from: PSA Journal September 1, 2006 700+ words
...present New Orleans after the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori until December 10 in the Howard Gilman Gallery...approximately 20 large-scale color photographs made by Robert Polidori on four extended visits to New Orleans between...
- New Orleans after the flood: "in a city that itself resembles a lost...
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) November 1, 2006 700+ words
...after the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori" features 20 large-scale images...in Havana, Versailles, and Chernobyl, he eschews nostalgia for the...after the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori" is on view through Dec. 10...
- Chernobyl's Children Call Out for Help.(Politics&Opinions)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) April 30, 2001 700+ words
...became a global point of reference: Chernobyl. In the months after the world's worst...Eastern Europe. For most of us, though, Chernobyl is history; its victims have been mourned...on with their lives as best they can. Chernobyl, however, cannot be spoken of in the...
- Chernobyl Casualty Toll Still Climbing 9 Yrs. After Blast
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times JAMES RUPERT June 25, 1995 700+ words
...years after a nuclear power reactor at Chernobyl exploded, the disaster continues to...the parts of Ukraine where, in 1986, Chernobyl's nuclear fire dumped most of its radioactive...disaster, a broad - if partial - picture of Chernobyl's health effects is emerging. While...
- BENEFITS SEEN FROM CHERNOBYL DR. GALE SPEAKS AT ALBANY COLLEGE.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 22, 1987 700+ words
...Byline: Craig Brandon Staff writer The Chernobyl power plant disaster, which killed 31...patients there. "The ultimate fallout from Chernobyl may well be more good than evil," said...who has spent about half his time in Chernobyl since the accident, treating patients...
- Chernobyl-Style Nuclear Plants Continue Operations
- Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered April 26, 1996 700+ words
...nuclear plants similar to the one at Chernobyl continue producing electricity despite...place when Reactor Number Four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Thirty...a dozen reactors just like the one at Chernobyl continue to operate. Some specialists...
