![]() The talk, "Atomic Energy and the Arrogance of Man: Revisiting the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster," is cosponsored by HURI, the Davis Center, and the Center for the Environment at Harvard University. Has the world learned its lesson from Chernobyl, an icon of a "reckless empire," as Serhii Plokhii puts it in 2016 article we reposted from Política Exterior? In other words, have we come to recognize the intensity of the danger posed by nuclear reactors, and the hazard of failing to meticulously maintain all safeguards, best practices, and fail safes? Did anything good come out of Chernobyl?Īs we commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the disaster on Thursday, April 26, 2018, Serhii Plokhii will give a talk addressing some of these questions and uncovering the nuances and untold stories of the 1986 tragedy. Many more have been affected in the years that followed. ![]() The incident unleashed 500 times as much radiation as the bomb used on Hiroshima, contaminating nearly 20,000 square miles of land in Ukraine alone, displacing about 90,000 people in the first week, and affecting tens of millions with radiation fallout, water supply disruptions, and other immediate consequences. ![]() It's been more than three decades since the worst nuclear disaster in history, the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl* Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. ![]()
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