On 26 April 1986 at 1:23:49 a.m. Moscow time accident occurred at power unit 4 of the Chomobyl NPP, which as regards its scale and consequences became the major and…
Category: Chernobyl Publications
Newspapers and other publications about the Chernobyl Disaster
The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (Lithuanian: Ignalinos atominė elektrinė, IAE) is a decommissioned two-unit RBMK-1500 nuclear power station in Visaginas Municipality, Lithuania, named after the nearby city of Ignalina. As…
No doubt most of my readers have seen the news about the spike in radioactivity near the Chernobyl Power Plant last night, from the typical 1-4μSv/h up to 65.5uSv/h (reported…
“Chernobyl 87” photo album is the latest addition to my collection. This photo album was created by a group of liquidators and dedicated to one of their colleagues – Vyacheslav…
There were clouds on the horizon for Viktor Bryukhanov, the director of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl. It was his job to explain what happened to the…
“Interconnected Power System of the South” booklet printed in the USSR by ElektroMachExport in Russian, English and German. I cannot find the exact date of its publication however the Chernobyl…
I present you a unique and detailed chronicle of events following the Chernobyl Disaster between 1986 and 1993. Published by the Red Cross in Ukrainian and English, it focuses…
Chornobyl: Ten Years of Overcome (Чорнобиль: десять років подолання) booklet was printed in 1996 to commemorate 10th anniversary of the Chernobyl Disaster. It is in both Ukrainian and English and…
It is January 1963, only three months have passed since the Cuban Missile Crisis where both superpowers were on the verge of escalating the ongoing tension into a full-scale nuclear…
This is one of the latest items in my collection of Chernobyl publications. The 18-pages long booklet titled “”SHELTER” 20 Years of Guaranteed Safety” tells the story of the Shelter…
Click on the thumbnail below to view the scan of the original article. I have translated it to English by running an OCR scan of the pages and cleaning up…
Last month I shared with you a really unique book about Chernobyl – the 1986 Pripyat Photo Album. Once widely available in shops and libraries of Pripyat, today it is…
On the 15th of December 2000 at 13:17, the last remaining operational reactor number 3 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was shut down using the AZ-5 switch located in…
Chernobyl coverage in Daily Express from 30 April 1986. Russia admits worst A-plant disaster ever NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE IS HERE More than 3,000 reported dead Thousands more are doomed Help…
A Booklet “Safety, Effectiveness, Social Progress” in English published by the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine containing information about the newly created State Specialised Enterprise “Chornobyl NPP” and…
After several years of searching I have finally obtained a copy of the famous book depicting Pripyat, released shortly before the Chernobyl Disaster. The book contains many widely known and…