Fukushima, planting the seeds of renewal

Fukushima, planting the seeds of renewal

The scene isn’t post-apocalyptic as one might expect. Fukushima, now, seems like any other place – underpopulated but ordinary. In 2016 we visited the prefecture on the northeastern coast of Japan, over 200 kilometres north of the capital Tokyo, to talk to those who are committed to getting their lives back on track after the earthquake, tsunami

Chernobyl 30 years later. How the disaster changed the world of nuclear power

Chernobyl 30 years later. How the disaster changed the world of nuclear power

The 26th of April 1986 is still an indelible date in the minds of millions of people around the world. The explosion that destroyed reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the former Soviet Union changed people’s perception of nuclear power forever, making them question its safety. Controversy regarding the death toll

Svetlana Alexievich is the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature

Svetlana Alexievich is the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature

Svetlana Alexievich has been awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature by the Swedish Academy “for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time”. The Belarusian writer and journalist is known for books that weave hundreds of real life testimonies together.   Alexievich was born in Ukraine in 1948 from a

Human presence is worse than radiation. Wildlife has returned to Chernobyl

Human presence is worse than radiation. Wildlife has returned to Chernobyl

Is there something worse than a nuclear disaster? Probably not, at least in the collective imagination. We immediately think about the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, two events that allowed to directly assess the long-term effects of a nuclear accident. It’s not breaking news that wildlife started repopulating the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (CEZ) and the surrounding forest. Ten-year studies carried