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Victoria Markovna Ivleva-York (Russian: Виктория Марковна Ивлева-Йорк) is a Russian photographer and political activist.In 1992 she was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year award in the Science & Technology category for her series of photographs taken on 1 January 1991 of the Chernobyl plant.
Included in this category are non-free fair use images related to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, an important topic of unique historical significance. Media in category "Images related to the Chernobyl disaster"
Amount of nuclear fuel in affected reactors 1 reactor—190 tonnes (t, metric tons = 210 U.S. short tons): spent fuel pools not involved in incident [ 4 ] 4 reactors—854 tonnes (t, metric tons): 81 t in Unit 1 reactor, 111 t in Unit 2 reactor, 111 t in Unit 3 reactor, 0 t in Unit 4 reactor (defueled), 59 t in Unit 1 spent fuel pool (SFP), 119 ...
Altogether, the tanks contain twice the radioactivity released by the 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Russia, The Atlantic reported. By 1989, 68 of the 149 tanks had leaked 900,000 contaminated gallons ...
The Chernobyl disaster is also credited with strengthening the anti-nuclear movement in Germany, which culminated in the decision to end the use of nuclear power made by the 1998–2005 Schröder government. [258] A temporary reversal of this policy ended with the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
the Chernobyl disaster at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Ukraine, USSR, in 1986. the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, March 2011. Other core meltdowns have occurred at: [62] NRX (military), Ontario, Canada, in 1952; BORAX-I (experimental), Idaho, United States, in 1954; EBR-I, Idaho, United ...
Then when the devastating Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in Ukraine in 1986, one of Gil’s daughters picked up and moved to New York City. Six years later, the rest of the family followed ...
Images taken by miniature drones from deep inside a badly damaged reactor at the Fukushima nuclear plant show displaced control equipment and misshapen materials but leave many questions ...