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Innenministerin Annelies Verlinden (CD&V) hatte die Atomaufsichtsbehörde Fank beauftragt, zu prüfen, ob der Rückbau von Doel 3 noch unter sicheren Bedingungen ausgesetzt werden könnte. Wie aus

Russias military controls the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, one of the largest in the world. Several rockets have struck the site in recent days, but who’s firing them? A team of DER SPIEGEL journalists investigated.

Ist Corona Rot-Chinas Tschernobyl? Die Corona-Epidemie könnte sich zum größten Fiasko der Machthaber in Peking entwickeln, vergleichbar mit Tschernobyl. - Eine Analyse Die Corona-Epidemie entwickelt sich allmählich zur größten wirtschaftlichen und menschlichen Katastrophe nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg – egal ob die enormen Verluste an Werten und Menschenleben dem Virus selbst zugeschrieben werden oder den Folgen. Damit wird die Frage nach der Herkunft des Virus buchstäblich virulenter...

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Permalink https://p.dw.com/p/3sRIi A senior engineer who worked building the reactor, a maternity doctor from a local hospital, and an 11-year-old girl evacuated from Pripyat survived, as did a firefighter who served in Reactor Block 4 and an army officer who was in charge of removing radioactive debris from the reactors roof. This documentary follows them as they return to their deserted homes for the first time. Their memories come together like pieces of a puzzle that depicts the fateful eve...

It remains the worlds worst nuclear accident. dozens of people were killed. many more got cancer. unlike in japan, huge quantities of radioactive debris were blown out through the roof. a quarter of a century on, we were given extremely rare access into the contaminated reactor block. but only briefly and in special clothing that remains on site. the radiation that we absorbed was carefully monitored. the passage of time means levels are much lower now except deep inside the concrete entomb reac...