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チェルノブイリ原発事故から36周年 記念行事と緊迫する中で現場に残る作業員らが称えられる

Ukraine marked the 36th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, honoring emergency workers who remained in the area during Russia's occupation of parts of northern Ukraine in recent months. Ukrainian forces retook the power plant and nearby areas in early April. Footage recorded soon after showed trenches dug in the exclusion zone by Russian soldiers. On April 26, ceremonies were held at the plant site, marking the 1986 explosions that spewed radiation in the region - the worst nuclear accident on record. This footage, released by Ukraine's State Emergency Services (SES), shows workers receiving recognition near the well-known Monument to Those Who Saved the World. Among those in attendance were Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky and SES chief Sergey Kruk. Emergency services said that in addition to the ongoing threat posed by the radiation, Russian forces left the area littered with explosives. Credit: SES Ukraine via Storyful ( Original Title: Ukraine Marks 36th Anniversary of Nuclear Disaster at Chernobyl )

日付：2022年4月26日

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ウクライナのチェルノブイリ原子力発電所 原発事故から36年目を迎える

April 26 2022 - PRIPYAT, UKRAINE: On the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency told reporters on Tuesday that radiation levels are "abnormal" at the site of Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant, where the world's worst nuclear disaster occurred 36 years ago on Tuesday (April 26). Video shows GVs of the site filmed on Tuesday. ( Original Title: GVs of Chernobyl nuclear plant on anniversary of disaster as IAEA head says radiation levels 'abnormal' )

日付：2022年4月26日

RM 186766411

チェルノブイリ原発事故から36年、現地を訪れた国際原子力機関の代表がインタビューに応える＝ウクライナ

On the anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency told reporters on Tuesday (April 25) that radiation levels are "abnormal" at the site of Chernobyl Nuclear Power plant, where the world's worst nuclear disaster occured 36 years ago today. ( Original Title: Raditation chief calls Russian occupation of Chernobyl 'abnormal and very dangerous' )

日付：2022年4月25日

RM 172881993

ゴーストタウンとなったチェルノブイリの現在の姿を撮影＝ウクライナ

A photographer has shared haunting footage and pictures of Chernobyl's ghost town as it looks today. The city of Pripyat, in northern Ukraine, was evacuated after the explosion of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 and despite once being home to nearly 50,000 people, has never been inhabited since. Urban explorer, Adam Mark, from Denbighshire in Wales, visited the exclusion zone just a few days ago and captured chilling footage of the town - which appears to have been frozen in time. Haunting snaps include a nursery, with rows of cots, mattresses and dolls still eerily in place, whilst other photographs show thousands of gas masks lying abandoned on the floor and theme park rides that are now being swallowed up by nature. ( Original Title: Eerie Chernobyl Frozen in Time )

日付：2021年10月27日

RM 125379210

チェルノブイリ原発事故があった場所の近くから煙が上がる＝ウクライナ

A fire that burned near the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant was contained on April 14, authorities in Ukraine said.The containment was announced amid ongoing fears the fire could threaten the site of the 1986 nuclear disaster.Radiation levels rose inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone as a result of the fire, reports said.This footage was posted by Serj Teslenko and shows smoke pluming above the New Safe Confinement Structure, which encases the old disaster site. Credit: Serj Teslenko via Storyful (Original Title: Smoke Rises Near Site of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster)

日付：2020年4月14日

RM 111979247

チェルノブイリ原発事故30周年記念ツアー_Belarus Chernobyl Tourism

More tourist sites open in Chernobyl Exclusion Zone LEAD IN: For the first time, tourists can enter the 30-kilometre exclusion zone in Belarus, following the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster on April 25-26 1986. Two weekly trips are offered to adventurous tourists, now that the radioactive levels have somewhat receded.

日付：2019年4月17日

RM 77152030

【チェルノブイリ原発事故】チェルノブイリ原発事故から32年_Ukraine Chernobyl (CR)

Ukraine Honors Anniversary of Chernobyl Disaster

日付：2018年4月26日

RM 76945996

Going home to Chernobyl ghost town 32 years on

Natalia Shevchuk gazes at the peeling walls inside her old flat and tears run down her cheeks: 32 years after the Chernobyl disaster she is finally revisiting her childhood home in the ghost town of Pripyat. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES - Natalia Shevchuk,former resident of Pripyat

日付：2018年4月25日

RM 114906204

チェルノブイリにいた犬＝ウクライナ

Chernobyl security (Original Title: Chernobyl dog)

日付：2017年2月23日

RM 114906227

チェルノブイリツアー参加者の映像＝ウクライナ

Tour around the chernobyl exclusion zone in October 2016 before the reactor was covered. (Original Title: Chernobyl Tour )

日付：2016年10月17日

RM 114903865

2016年、チェルノブイリ原発事故から30年＝ウクライナ

Ukraine Marks 30th Anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Ukraine marked the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on April 26. The disaster on April 26, 1986, involved a meltdown of a reactor at the plant, causing an enormous leak of radioactive material and directly killing dozens of people. Greenpeace commissioned a report in 2006, estimating that a final death toll may reach into the thousands as many more could eventually die from illnesses caused by exposure to high levels of radiation. This video, released by the local government of Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi region, shows several people who were involved in the “aftermath of the explosion” at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, revisiting the location. Credit: YouTube/ГУНП в Хмельницькій області via Storyful (Original Title: Ukraine Marks 30th Anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster)

日付：2016年4月25日

RM 114903864

チェルノブイリの立ち入り禁止区域のキツネに餌を与える＝ウクライナ

Fox in Abandoned Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Makes a Sandwich Ahead of the 29th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster on April 26, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reporters visited Pripyat, an abandoned city in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a 30km radius of contaminated land. Pripyat, with its empty buildings and abandoned amusement park, provides an eerie snapshot of a typical Soviet town before the fall of the Iron Curtain. For that reason, it has recently become a tourist destination. This footage shows RFE/RL journalists feeding a fox as part of a report highlighting that the city has become a haven for wildlife. The fox, which appears unphased by the reporters, craftily makes a sandwich for himself out of bread and sausage. Credit: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty via Storyful (Original Title: Fox in Abandoned Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Makes a Sandwich)

日付：2015年4月23日

RM 38254215

【チェルノブイリ原発事故】UKRAINE: HANS BLIX SEES CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR PLANT AS EUROPEAN BANK AGREES TO FUND UKRAINE WORK TO BUILD NEW SHIELD OVER PLANT TO PREVENT RADIATION

Date:JULY 9, 2003 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has agreed to fund the Ukraine with millions of dollars to build a new shield over Chernobyl, site of the world's worst civil nuclear disaster. Nuclear experts say the concrete structure is crumbling and radiation is leaking into nearby towns and cities. A delegation from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) visited Chernobyl on Wednesday (July 9) and announced it was ready to give the ex-Soviet state 85 million U.S. dollars this year to stabilise the old "sarcophagus" covering the gaping hole in reactor No.4 at the power station. Nuclear experts say the concrete structure is crumbling and radiation is leaking into nearby towns and cities. The EBRD also said it would start funding the 750 million U.S. dollar project to kick-start work on a new arc to surround the reactor. Chernobyl closed in 2000, nearly 15 years after the reactor exploded, spewing a deadly cloud of radioactivity over Ukraine, neighbouring Belarus, Russia and some of Western Europe and leaving a legacy of health problems in the former-Soviet states. Hans Blix, who was head of the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency when the reactor exploded and currently in charge of the EBRD-managed Chernobyl Shelter Fund, told reporters the Chernobyl project was moving into a more active stage. "The Chernobyl programme has been before me since I was in Vienna in 1986 and with my Ukrainian friends. I would like to see it to a safe conclusion," said Blix. EBRD officials said they had selected a design for the mammoth protective arc over the reactor and construction would start next year after Ukraine eased tax rules for companies involved in the project. The Ukrainian government says that while the funds are needed, the reactor presents no immediate danger. Ukraine's Fuel and Energy Minister Serhiy Yermilov dismissed concerns about the current protective shield. "The work on stabilising the existing shield is going on all the time," he said. "I am responsible for the condition of the shelter and I can say that it is okay. You can ignore the political speculation about the safety of the shelter," Yermilov added. The EBRD programme still faces hurdles due to complicated certification procedures for imports. It is also still trying to resolve problems getting into neighbouring Belarus, another ex-Soviet state which bore the brunt of the radiation fallout and is now ruled by hardline leader Alexander Lukashenko who has poor relations with the West. (Caption:UKRAINE: HANS BLIX SEES CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR PLANT AS EUROPEAN BANK AGREES TO FUND UKRAINE WORK TO BUILD NEW SHIELD OVER PLANT TO PREVENT RADIATION)

日付：2003年7月9日

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【チェルノブイリ原発事故】UKRAINE: WORKERS AT CHERNOBYL UNHAPPY AS NUCLEAR PLANT CLOSES DOWN.

Date:DECEMBER 15, 2000 Workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power station have said they are sad and upset following the official closure of the plant which caused the world's worst nuclear accident. The workers, who watched President Leonid Kuchma give the order to close the plant via a giant television link on Friday (December 15), later wiped tears from their eyes. One worker said that he felt he had been betrayed twice -- once in 1986 when the accident occurred, and now again today when the plant was closed. The 6,000 workers expect that they will all eventually lose their much-needed jobs with the closure. Ukraine has pledged not to use Chernobyl for electricity generation again. Officials say it will take until 2008 before the last fuel rods are removed from the plant, which is 125 km (70 miles) north of Kiev in a poisoned no-go zone. Thousands are thought to have died since as a result of radiation which spewed from the reactor's burning shell. One in 16 Ukrainians, and millions of Russians and Belarussians suffer health disorders attributable to the disaster, including thyroid cancer and respiratory problems, according to Ukrainian authorities. (dw/rl) (Caption:UKRAINE: WORKERS AT CHERNOBYL UNHAPPY AS NUCLEAR PLANT CLOSES DOWN.)

日付：2000年12月15日

RM 38329494

【チェルノブイリ原発事故】UKRAINE: WREATHS LAID AT CHERNOBYL AHEAD OF THE NUCLEAR PLANT'S FINAL CLOSURE.

Date:DECEMBER 14, 2000 Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and the prime ministers of Russia and Belarus laid wreaths on Thursday (December 14) at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, a day before the plant's closure. The last working reactor at Chernobyl, scene of the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986, is due to be decommissioned on Friday (December 15). Chernobyl's Number Four reactor caught fire and exploded in April 1986, sending a radioactive cloud of dust over Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and other parts of Europe. Around 30 firemen perished immediately, and radiation has since been blamed for thousands of deaths in the three countries. Ukrainian President, Leonid Kuchma, dressed in black, bowed before a monument called "Prometheus" - who in Greek mythology stole fire from the Gods - accompanied by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and Belarus's Vladimir Yermoshin. Several hundred workers from Chernobyl, clad in blue overalls, attended the flower-laying ceremony on an overcast morning, a few hundred yards (metres) from the concrete entombed remains of reactor Number Four. A ribbon on one wreath read: "To the heroes of Chernobyl". The mood was solemn - the closure of reactor Number Three, which provides Ukraine with around five percent of its electricity, will gradually mean the phasing out of the 6,000 jobs Chernobyl provides. Afterwards, Kuchma was shown around the power station. Reactor Three has been dogged by minor accidents and technical glitches. Following a power cut last week, it was only restarted at minimal power output in the early hours of Thursday so it can be symbolically switched off on Friday. Speaking at a press conference afterwards Kuchma said that the Chernobyl explosion was a tragedy and decision had to be made to close the plant. "I am no specialist in nuclear power but I know that these types of reactors are not reliable and that is why the decision was taken to close this one," he added. Kuchma agreed earlier this year to close Chernobyl for good in return for Western financial aid to complete the building of replacement reactors elsewhere. (Caption:UKRAINE: WREATHS LAID AT CHERNOBYL AHEAD OF THE NUCLEAR PLANT'S FINAL CLOSURE.)

日付：2000年12月14日

RM 38319784

【チェルノブイリ原発事故】UKRAINE: FINAL PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR CLOSURE OF LAST WORKING CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR REACTOR

Date:DECEMBER 11, 2000, RECENT AND FILE The last preparations are under way for the closure of last working Chernobyl reactor scheduled for December 15th. This event, impatiently awaited by the West, will be met with sadness by the station's workers which are convinced that the station is safe to operate and the decision to close it down will cause a severe energy crisis in Ukraine. This week, at midday on Friday (December 15), a duty engineer at Chernobyl nuclear power station will press a button and begin the shutdown of the plant that caused the world's worst civil nuclear disaster. That is if the station is operating - it has been forced to shut down twice in the last three weeks due to collapsed power lines and leaking steam, highlighting the jitters Chernobyl causes around the world. But despite the fact that the station is not operating, the last preparations is under way for its closure. Workers are constructing a new heating system which is needed to heat the station after it switched off. In the control room operators are checking the functioning of all the reactor systems and demonstrate the button which will start the process of shutting down. It will take about two hours. An engineer will give the order and a technician will press a button marked BAZ, short for "rapid emergency defence". Operators of the control room are not happy about the upcoming event. They think that Chernobyl's closure will worsen the energy crisis in Ukraine where power cuts is a common thing. Chernobyl is one of Ukraine's five nuclear plants and its only working reactor accounts for between four and six percent of the country's total electricity supply. "The decision to close down the station was made by the Ukrainian government as a good will gesture. In a year or two after the closure, when we will be begging Russia for fuel, The West will say to us :" You closed the station yourself. We had nothing to do with it," said Viktor Kuchinsky, head of shift at the control room." Yuri Neretin, Chernobyl's chief engineer thinks that closure of Chernobyl will not solve the problem of safety of nuclear power stations. "The closure of Chernobyl doesn't solve the problem in general. Even on the opposite. We can say that the problem is more or less solved for Chernobyl itself thanks to the world community, which invested here large amount of money, more than in any other reactor of this type in Russia or Lithuania," said Yuri Neretin. The European Bank for Reconstruction and development is prepared to invest $215 millions into the completion of two more Soviet-design reactors at Khnmelnitskaya and Rovnenskaya nuclear power stations. Ukraine says it cannot afford to shut down Chernobyl without Western loans for decommissioning the plant and completing the new reactors. Power cuts is a headache for millions of Ukrainians. It happens in all the cities except Kiev. Even during the summer, regions across the country of 50 million are regularly plunged into darkness and production lines grind to a halt in big factories. In winter situation usually become worse. Chernobyl closure has divided the Ukrainian society. Part of which thinks that the country can not survive without Chernobyl and that the energy crisis will worsen with its closure while others demand its shutdown for safety reasons. Officially, 31 people were killed, mostly firemen who died immediately after the explosion. Independent experts say - several thousand "liquidators" - emergency workers and local residents died of diseases caused by radioactivity, thousands more suffer from various forms of cancer and blood disease. In addition hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine and neighbouring Russia and Belarus had to abandon their homes in a vast exclusion zone around the plant. (Caption:UKRAINE: FINAL PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY FOR CLOSURE OF LAST WORKING CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR REACTOR)

日付：2000年12月11日

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【チェルノブイリ原発事故】UKRAINE: UKRAINE'S CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT'S LAST REACTOR HAS BEEN AUTOMATICALLY SHUT DOWN IN RESPONSE TO A SUPPLY LINE FAILURE

Date:NOVEMBER 27, 2000 Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant's last reactor has been automatically shut down in response to a supply line failure. The plant, the site of the world's worst civilian nuclear accident, had been set to close forever on December 15, so it is uncertain whether engineers would restart it less than three weeks before its final closure. Power line failures forced the shutdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power station on Monday (November 27), raising doubts over whether engineers would restart it less than three weeks before its final closure. A top atomic energy official in the Ukrainian capital Kiev said he was not sure there was any point in firing up the plant, site of the world's worst civil nuclear disaster in 1986. But Chernobyl's chief engineer -- rattled at the prospect of the loss of 9,000 jobs -- told Reuters the station would be ready to go back on stream within days. A cold snap brought havoc to Ukraine's creaking national power grid, and millions were left without electricity when power lines failed across the country. A reactor at the South Ukraine power station was also forced out of action after technicians found a leak in a steam generator, officials said. There was no increase in radiation around either plant. Chernobyl chief engineer Yuri Neretin said a sudden fall in demand from the national grid early on Monday caused the safety system of the plant's last functioning reactor to shut it down. "If there's nowhere for our electricity to go, the reactor automatically shuts itself down," he said in an interview in an office inside the plant, surrounded by flashing displays and phones. This was because the reactor could not adapt quickly to sudden changes in demand, he said. "Reactor number three stopped without any faults or remarks. The safety systems did their job," he said. "The reactor was not affected by the emergency." Chernobyl, which provides around five percent of Ukraine's electricity, is due to close on December 15. Western donors have pledged money to build replacement reactors elsewhere. "I hope that on December 2 we will be able to start the reactor," Neretin said. "This is necessary -- every day we produce electricity worth 1.5 million hryvnias ($280,000). So it makes economical sense (to restart it for a few weeks)." Neretin made clear how unpopular closing the plant is in Chernobyl and the nearby town of Slavutych, home to 30,000 people whose jobs depend on the nuclear plant, saying that the mood among the staff was tense because of the lack of alternative jobs. He said hundreds of millions of dollars the West had spent upgrading reactor number three meant it could serve safely until 2011. He also questioned whether Ukraine, already susceptible to frequent power cuts, could get by without Chernobyl. The power lines which failed link Chernobyl with the western Vynnytsa and Khmelnitsky regions, where the Emergencies Ministry said heavy wind, snow and ice had severed electricity supplies to nearly half of all homes. Temperatures in Ukraine plummeted to minus 14 Celsius (seven degrees Fahrenheit) overnight. The reactors there are of the VVER-1,000 type, considered safer by Western experts than the RMBK reactors at Chernobyl. Chernobyl's number four reactor exploded in April 1986, killing at least 30 people immediately and sending a radioactive cloud over Ukraine and much of Europe. Thousands are thought to have died since of radiation-related illnesses. (Caption:UKRAINE: UKRAINE'S CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT'S LAST REACTOR HAS BEEN AUTOMATICALLY SHUT DOWN IN RESPONSE TO A SUPPLY LINE FAILURE)

日付：2000年11月27日

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【チェルノブイリ原発事故】UKRAINE: WORKERS VENT THEIR ANGER AS CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PREPARES TO CLOSE DOWN ITS LAST NUCLEAR REACTOR

Date:NOVEMBER 17, 2000 Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant is preparing to close down its last nuclear reactor. As Western countries welcome the prospect, workers at the plant feel they have been betrayed and many are seeking a better life abroad. Despair reigns at the Chernobyl plant, located amid thick pine forests some 120 km (75 miles) north of the Ukrainian capital Kiev. On December 15, 2000, the last working nuclear reactor of the third block is to be shut down, closing the infamous Chernobyl nuclear power plant for good. Glum workers say they will close the station on the date agreed by President Leonid Kuchma earlier this year, even though they do not know what they will do for a living afterwards. Shift chief Viktor Kuchinsky and other workers regret the closure, saying it is unnecesssary and a waste of resources in a poor country that can ill afford it. "In two or three years time you'll remember my words when we (Ukraine) will be begging for fuel or for the money to buy this fuel from Russia. And everyone will say 'You who shut the station down yourselves, leave us out of it'," Kuchinsky said, pointing at the large white button that will close the reactor. Ukraine depends on Chernobyl's last working reactor for around five percent of its electricity. Workers also fear losing jobs in a remote area with few alternatives. "I would probably have to look for another job, because it's hard to find work in Ukraine, especially for people of my profession. I would probabaly have to look for one in Russia or abroad," Kuchinsky said. But the West knows Chernobyl as the site of the world's worst peacetime nuclear accident, when the number four reactor exploded in 1986, spewing clouds of radioactive dust across Europe. Officially, 31 people were killed, mostly firemen who died immediately after the explosion. Independent experts say several thousand "liquidators" -- emergency workers -- and local residents died of diseases caused by radioactivity. Thousands more suffer from various forms of cancer and blood disease. In addition, hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine and neighbouring Russia and Belarus had to abandon their homes in a vast exclusion zone around the plant. Pripyat, the once-bustling 50,000-strong settlement of Chernobyl workers, was evacuated overnight and is now a ghost town encircled by barbed wire. (Caption:UKRAINE: WORKERS VENT THEIR ANGER AS CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT PREPARES TO CLOSE DOWN ITS LAST NUCLEAR REACTOR)

日付：2000年11月17日

RM 20011583

【チェルノブイリ原発事故】チェルノブイリ原子力発電所（1986年）

Various of archive from 1986, including Chernobyl's destroyed 4th block and the clean-up; Chernobyl plant, with Grigory Lyakhuta at work; CU of part of machine; Various men at work

日付：2000年1月1日

RM 38382931

【チェルノブイリ原発事故】UKRAINE: THE ONLY OPERATIONAL REACTOR AT UKRAINE'S CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IS BACK ON LINE

Date:MARCH 6, 1999 AND RECENT The only operational reactor at Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant is back on line after repairs, delayed by nearly a month, were completed. Chernobyl's reactor number 3, closed for repairs last year, was restarted on Saturday (March 6). The repairs which began on December 15 last year were originally expected to end by February 15 but continued after workers found additional defects in pipelines. Originally, the Chernobyl plant had four reactors.One exploded, in April 1986, spewing a cloud of poisonous radioactive dust over Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and parts of Western Europe in the world's worst civil nuclear disaster. The other two were closed down in 1991 and 1996 respectively. The memory of the 1986 disaster has bred concerns about the safety of the only functioning reactor which, over the past several years, has been reported to malfunction and has undergone repairs. The Group of Seven leading industrial nations have put pressure on Ukraine to shut down Chernobyl by 2000 in exchange for aid to replace the closed reactors with two new more modern types. But Kiev has long maintained it needs the existing reactors to help fulfill the country's electricity requirements. Ukraine operates five nuclear power plants with 14 Soviet-designed nuclear reactors that generate almost half the electricity produced by the country of 50 million people. Recently, Ukrainian officials have increased security at the country's nuclear power stations due to protests by nuclear workers near the plants. Hundreds of workers, protesting against unpaid salaries, have camped outside their stations since February 24. The protesters demand the government pays off by March 6 debts on their salaries that near $15 million to date. Earlier this week the government promised to cover debts to protesters with a 260 million hryvnia ($71 million) credit to the ailing energy sector. Chernobyl nuclear power plant workers joined the protest on March 2.They have set up a tent city in Slavutich, Chernobyl's satellite town where most of the personnel of the power station live. (Caption:UKRAINE: THE ONLY OPERATIONAL REACTOR AT UKRAINE'S CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IS BACK ON LINE)

日付：1999年3月6日

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【チェルノブイリ原発事故】UKRAINE: CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR REACTOR THREAT AS 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF DISASTER APPROACHES

Date:APRIL 7, 1998 AND FILE The Chernobyl nuclear reactor is again threatening land and life as the twelfth anniversary of the devastating explosion there approaches. Officials are concerned that the crumbling cement sarcophagus that seals the ruins will soon allow radioactive dust to escape, spreading wind-borne ecological damage, death, and possible genetic mutation. The Chernobyl sarcophagus is a 50-metre (50-yard) high reinforced cement wall constructed to shield the radioactive ruins. It was thrown up in haste shortly after the explosion of Nuclear Reactor Bloc number 4 on April 26, 1986.Over 10,000 officials and soldiers helped in laying down 300,000 cubic metres (yards) of cement, completing the sarcophagus in less than six months. Originally, Soviet authorities said the sarcophagus would last for 30 years.Reactor officials changed the estimate to 20 years and now, almost 12 years to the day of the explosion, they are warning that the sarcophagus' failure is imminent. Reactor officials say that the sarcophagus itself is not faulty, it did withstand a small earthquake in 1991, but that its hasty construction and the effect of weather changes have worn it down. Rain water leaks through the sarcophagus walls and forms puddles inside the reactor.Inside the sarcophagus walls is a mass of radioactive dust, which could be washed away by the water or borne away by wind. Over 200 workers spend portions of their day inside the sarcophagus, monitoring structural deterioration and radiation levels.In one year they receive 10 times more exposure to radiation than the average person despite extensive precautions and constant monitoring. Assistant director Artur Korneev says that money for repairs is urgently needed to avoid another disaster. A crucial repair of the ventilation stack was carried out with a 1.8 million grant United States dollars (USD) from the United States and Canada.A complete overhaul of the sarcophagus would cost about 48 million USD, according to a plan drawn up by the European Union and Chernobyl officials. Meanwhile, officials say the reactor's 16 million USD annual budget is not enough for even regular maintenance. (Caption:UKRAINE: CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR REACTOR THREAT AS 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF DISASTER APPROACHES)

日付：1998年4月7日

RM 127263653

チェルノブイリ原発事故、ギリシャ政府乳製品の出荷停止

GREECE GOVERNMENT SUSPENDS DAIRY PRODUCTS

日付：1986年5月7日

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チェルノブイリ原発事故、西ドイツで影響検査

WEST GERMANY DR MAHNEGOLD PRESS CONFERENCE QUOTE REF W.GERMANY: Dr Karlheinz Mahnegold, a physicist specialising SYND in nuclear medicine pkf on measuring samples of grass, soil & 14.5.86 tap water around Frankfurt for radioactive fallout from LN118655 Chernobyl nuclear accident.

日付：1986年5月7日

RM 127265520

チェルノブイリ原発事故、西ドイツ国境で放射能測定

W.German civil defence units decontaminate SYND trucks carrying foodstuffs across the border from E.Germany 7.5.86 because of radiation fears from Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

日付：1986年5月3日

RM 20011119

チェルノブイリ原発事故（1986年）

Swedish scientist tests for radiation; Aerial views of Chernobyl after reactor explosion; Surgeons working at operating table; Doctor examining child; Trucks along at Chernobyl; Dozens of reindeer being herded and eating grass

日付：1986年1月1日

RM 120854412

【チェルノブイリ原子力発電所】1977年9月1号炉が竣工（資料映像）

Editorial use only Archive scenes from the launch of the Chernobyl nuclear power station, Ukraine, (then) USSR, in September 1977. The Chernobyl nuclear power plant comprised four 1000MW RBMK nuclear reactors. Only the first was operation at launch, with the rest coming online in 1978, 1981 and 1983. On 26th April 1986, reactor number 4 suffered a catastrophic core explosion during a safety test. The explosion led to an open core fire that released radioactive material into the air for nine days. A thirty-kilometre exclusion zone was established, with more than 115,000 people evacuated. More than 50 people were killed by radiation exposure, and thousands more are thought to have died due to long-term radiation effects, such as increased incidence of cancers.

日付：1977年9月

RM 66932560

チェルノブイリ原発事故_UKRAINE/FILE: A quarter of a century since the Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine lacks funds needed for a new protective covering, to make the site of the world's worst nuclear accident safe

A quarter of a century since the Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine lacks funds needed for a new protective covering, to make the site of the world's worst nuclear accident safe. Environmentalists say what the plant needs is not another 'sarcophagus' but new ideas on how to dispose of the massive amount of radioactive waste it still houses. (Caption:UKRAINE/FILE: A quarter of a century since the Chernobyl disaster, Ukraine lacks funds needed for a new protective covering, to make the site of the world's worst nuclear accident safe)

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チェルノブイリでCTスキャンの200倍以上の放射線を帯びたカバンを見つけた男性

By Neo Bye An urban explorer found a bag in Chernobyl that had almost 200 times more radiation than a CT scan. Neil Ansell was visiting the devastated nuclear zone near Pripyat, Ukraine, when he came across a few discarded items. Hovering a Geiger counter over the bag, its radiation reached a high of 2728 millisieverts (mSv) or 2.7 sievert (Sv), almost 200 times stronger compared to an adult CT scan, which measures 15mSv. A single dose of radiation that measures 5Sv would cause half the people exposed to it to die within a month and the threshold for relocating people from Chernobyl was just 350mSv. Neil said: “I was stunned just how radioactive some of the items were. “Fortunately, we didn’t open the bag and weren’t exposed to it for long enough. “We’re still not sure what exactly was in the bag, even our tour guide didn’t know. “I wasn’t interested in trying to find out either as if we’d touched or inhaled it, it could have been fatally dangerous. “I felt really emotional after leaving Chernobyl as it has become a ghost town where it was once a lively town.” All measurements are taken from here – (Original Title: URBAN EXPLORER FINDS BAG IN CHERNOBYL THAT HAS 200 TIMES MORE RADIATION THAN A CT SCAN)

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