April 26, 2006, 02:30 PM
CHERNOBYL DISASTER
Journalists and politicians have resorted to different terms for describing the reactor meltdown in Chernobyl. What was a "catastrophe" for German media was an "accident" to Soviet officials. more...
April 26, 2006, 02:08 PM
LESSONS FORGOTTEN
The Chernobyl disaster rattled the trust of Ukrainians in atomic power. But after a natural-gas showdown with Russia last winter, the nation is flirting with going nuclear again. Kiev wants to build 14 new reactors. By Alexander Schwabe more...
April 26, 2006, 01:27 PM
THE WORLD FROM BERLIN
Concerns about the safety of nuclear power, the threats from terrorism and the dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions all feature in Wednesday's newspaper commentaries on the 20th anniverary of the Chernobyl disaster. more...
April 26, 2006, 12:06 PM
CHERNOBYL REMEMBERED
Mourners gathered early Wednesday morning to commemorate the worst civilian nuclear disaster ever. Exactly two decades ago, Reactor no. 4 exploded, sending a radioactive cloud around the world. more...
April 26, 2006, 12:03 PM
LIVING IN CHERNOBYL
A handful of people still live in the exclusion zone surrounding the stricken Chernobyl reactor. They're lonely, but life isn't much different than before. By Paul Flückiger in Illintsi, Ukraine more... [ Forum ]
April 26, 2006, 11:35 AM
CHERNOBYL "LIQUIDATORS" ON HUNGER STRIKE
Seven former "liquidators" -- sent to clear the Chernobyl disaster area following the 1986 nuclear meltdown -- are on hunger strike to protest cuts in their disability payments. The hunger strike will end on Wednesday, April 26, the twentieth anniversary of the disaster. more...
April 26, 2006, 10:29 AM
PHOTO GALLERY
Early on Wednesday morning -- exactly two decades after Reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl exploded in the early morning hours of April 26, 1986 -- a crowd gathered near the disaster zone to commemorate the victims. more...
April 24, 2006, 02:54 PM
GERMANY'S GREENS AND CHERNOBYL
The Chernobyl disaster provided Germany's nascent Green Party with a rallying cry in the 1980s. Twenty years later, veteran anti-nuclear activists have traveled inside Ukraine's radioactive "exclusion zone" to reflect upon the past and lost opportunities. By Matthias Gebauer in Chernobyl more...
April 21, 2006, 09:34 AM
EAST GERMANY AND CHERNOBYL
In West Germany they were closing children's playgrounds and distributing iodine tablets. But in communist East Germany life after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster carried on as normal -- at least officially. The government simply censored fear. By Miriam Schröder more...
April 19, 2006, 02:58 PM
LOOKING BACK AT CHERNOBYL
Contradictory statements, overhasty warnings and reassurances of varying degrees of credibility characterized the public debate in Germany following the Chernobyl disaster. For weeks, there were food and health scares as a result of radioactive contamination, but few could agree on the degree of danger it represented. A look back from the archives of DER SPIEGEL. more... [ Forum ]
