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Chernobyl victims

Gerd Ludwig: The Long Shadow of Chernobyl – A 20 Year Retrospective Photo Book

ATOMIC ACCIDENT: While researchers argue about whether Chernobyl is the cause of malformations and cancer, photographer Gerd Ludwig works hard to document the victims of the world's biggest nuclear accident.
Iril Kolle -
literature

On a tandem bike into the future

Becky Alexis-Martin: Disarming Doomsday: The Human Impact of Nuclear Weapons since Hiroshima

: NUCLEAR WEAPONS: Despite repeated demonstrations, the nuclear weapons are still with us, and they are at least as dangerous as before. This book contains what you need to know about the history of nuclear weapons.
Andrew Kroglund -
documentary

The Chernobyl disaster – a Soviet science fiction?

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THE ATOMIC DISASTER: As a magnificent docu-fiction, the miniseries Chernobyl is now shown on HBO. The series reveals that the Soviet authorities took a misunderstood line of reassurance. But the same thing happened in Norway.
Sigurd Ohrem -
COMMENT

Deadly, complicated and expensive nuclear waste

: In 2019, there are 17 tonnes of highly active nuclear waste that will be cleared and stored in Norwegian nature. It is a very complicated and environmentally hazardous work, which the authorities have been pushing ahead for years.
Kaisa Ytterhaug -
documentary

Waves of earth

Mark Olexa, Francesca Scalisi: Half Life in Fukushima

: Six years after the disaster, Fukushima is taken out of a post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie. But a few souls still hold out.
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