Chernobyl disaster

Press Secretary Psaki Holds Daily Briefing

Democrats Are Facing an Uphill Battle Democrats Are Facing an Uphill Battle

With the midterm elections on the horizon, the party is alienating its base and losing public confidence.

Feb 7, 2022 / Aída Chávez

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30 Years After the Chernobyl Meltdown, Why Is the Ukrainian Government Pushing Nuclear Energy? 30 Years After the Chernobyl Meltdown, Why Is the Ukrainian Government Pushing Nuclear Energy?

Or, how Ukraine learned to stop worrying and love its nuclear power plants.

Apr 25, 2016 / Dusty Christensen

Spectra AIM pipeline protest

A High-Pressure Pipeline Next to a Nuclear Power Plant… What Could Possibly Go Wrong? A High-Pressure Pipeline Next to a Nuclear Power Plant… What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

The construction of a gas pipeline within 1500 feet of Indian Point’s nuclear reactors could spell disaster for New York.

Mar 31, 2016 / Alison Rose Levy and Ellen Cantarow

Start Making Sense: The GOP’s Gun Problem

Start Making Sense: The GOP’s Gun Problem Start Making Sense: The GOP’s Gun Problem

On this week’s podcast, Laila Lalami on ISIS and American Muslims, Joan Walsh on our distorted gun politics, and Amy Wilentz and Tom Lutz on Chernobyl.

Dec 10, 2015 / Podcast / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Feral Gardens

Feral Gardens Feral Gardens

Danny Cooke’s Postcards from Pripyat, Chernobyl summons a lost history of familiar and alien dreams.

Feb 11, 2015 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover

The Legacy of Chernobyl The Legacy of Chernobyl

Twenty-six years after the Chernobyl disaster, the US media have yet to print the pictures of Chernobyl now.

Apr 26, 2012 / Laura Flanders

Chernobyl: 25 Years Later Chernobyl: 25 Years Later

To mark the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl's disaster and the lessons it still holds for us today, The Nation has assembled a collection of articles from our archives.

Apr 26, 2011 / The Nation

From Chernobyl to Fukushima: What Will It Take? From Chernobyl to Fukushima: What Will It Take?

There are no effective “safeguards” against nuclear disasters, and Japan’s crisis is only the latest display of the overwhelming risks involved in splitting atoms for energy.

Mar 17, 2011 / Column / Alexander Cockburn

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