Chernobyl: Ten Years of Disaster.
Possibility and Necessity of Phase-out of Chernobyl
WISE News Communique 449/450April 10, 1996
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Contents
1. Extending the Dangers: Western Financing Policy- Introduction
- Safety investigations
- Assistance programs
- The EU assistance programs Phare and Tacis
- Phare
- Tacis
- The inertia of the international community
- Prehistory of a necessity fund
- The Nuclear Safety Account (NSA)
- NSA projects
- No progress
- Camouflaging the lack of decisiveness
- Legal liability
- Sources
- Box: Super mice
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- Tiit Tarlap:
- Here in this big town
- Introduction
- The memorandum of understanding
- Table: G7/Ukraine program for the closure of Chernobyl
- The role of the EU, Euratom and the EBRD
- The Lahmeyer report
- Victory for the nuclear lobby
- Enough options for replacing Chernobyl
- The worst deal imaginable
- Ukraine nuclear power program
- Russian nuclear policy
- No nuclear safety
- Other problems
- Introduction
- General energy situation
- Table: Electricity and energy consumption in the Ukraine
- US DOE least cost
- NRDC Non-nuclear options
- BUND and Greenpeace Ukraine proposals
- Sources
- Introduction
- The source term
- Table: Source term
- Lies on health consequences
- Inexplicably high number of thyroid cancer
- Long-term consequences
- Sources
- Box: 30 million still at risk
| "And since we couldn't do anything anyway, we had no problems with our conscience any more. If, for example, we were given an order to dig up the earth from the buildings to the fences: we just moved the fences and that was it ... Cleaning up just one part seemed like utter nonsense (as did the cleaning of everything else while the power plant continued to spit out contamination), and so we simply decreased the measures of nonsense and started to fit our days in the categories of the comfort of this nonsense." Source: Tiit Tarlap, Chernobyl 1986, Memories of an Estonian Cleanup Worker |
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For this issue, WISE used black-and-white drawings from children living in the Chernobyl-afflicted area of Belarus. The drawings are part of an exposition of Cultural Express which shows the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster. Paintings are sold during the exhibition. With the proceeds from the sales of the paintings, the Netherlands-based Cultural Express Foundation - a non-profit organization - organizes cure holidays for children from Belarus who are chronically ill as a result of the Chernobyl disaster in the clean areas in the GOS. Contact: Cultural Express Foundation |
In a small booklet called 'Chernobyl 1986: Memoirs of an Estonian Cleanup Worker', Tiit Tarlap, one of approximately five thousand Estonian liquidators, narrates his experiences during the cleaning-up of the contaminated area around the Chernobyl plant. Tarlap was then in the lowest rank in the former Soviet army. From the beginning - when he was unpleasantly disturbed in the middle of the night - to the end of this half-year period, everything was a nightmare. Tarlap describes in a restrained way the individual response to a dramatic and stressful situation. You can read parts of the book in chapter one, two and four. Contact: Chernobyl Committee Pärnu county |
WISE Amsterdam
issn: 0169-4022
Editing and production: Dirk Bannink, Joop Boer, Huub Jaspers, Hermine Linnebank, Martijn de Vries With help from: Robert Jan van den Berg, Miriam Bowling, Paxus Calta, Herman Damveld, Klarisse Nienhuys, Leonard den Ottolander and Laka Foundation
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