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Welcome to chernobyl legacy

“The future of nuclear power after the world’s worst nuclear accident”

This site is part of the www.livingissues.com family. There you'll find further debate about nuclear.

This site was produced for the 20th anniversary of the world's biggest nuclear accident and aims to draw lessons from “Chernobyl”.

• A myth which is damaging the future of nuclear power
• A horror story the media and others “lied” about
• A nuclear facility which produced electricity until 2000
• A beautiful place populated by bright and brave people
• The world’s most famous accident, April 1986
• A place where nuclear waste will be handled for centuries

This site is edited by Richard D North. It gives accounts of many aspects of nuclear power, often using evidence from Chernobyl, in mini-essays, video clips, still images and links to other interesting sites. See menu at the left...

This site is sponsored by the Social Affairs Unit as a contribution to the nuclear power debate. Neither the SAU nor the site has received funding from any pro-nuclear interest.

Try these recent stories:

• BBC's brilliant (04 August 2006)
• July 2006: BBC gets Three Mile Island as wrong as can be (07 July 2006)
• May 2006: Chernobyl Forum answers its critics (26 May 2006)
• May, 2006: The Future of Nuclear - Dumping its past? (11 May 2006)
• 23 April 2006: editorial on Chernobyl death toll dispute (23 April 2006)
• 18 April, 2006: Greenpeace claims 90,000-200,000 death toll (20 April 2006)
• April, 2006: A westerner in Chernobyl, 1995/6 (10 April 2006)
• 8 April 2006: New Scientist reports 30-60,000 likely to die (08 April 2006)
• 2 April, 2006: Update on Ukraine's fuel cycle (02 April 2006)

From our stills gallery:

Unit 4 Sarcophagus, 2005
 
Chernobyl plant offices, 2005

Farmland near Chernobyl