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The Chernobyl Trust Fund was created in 1991 by the United Nations to help victims of the Chernobyl accident. [127] It is administered by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs , which also manages strategy formulation, resource mobilization, and advocacy efforts. [ 128 ]
Included in this category are non-free fair use images related to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, an important topic of unique historical significance.
Anatoly Ivanovich Rasskazov (Russian: Анатолий Иванович Рассказов; 16 January 1941 – 17 February 2010) was a staff photographer and illustrator at the Soviet Chernobyl power station. He was the first person to photograph the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. [1] [2]
The museum is designed to educate the public about the many aspects of the disaster. Several exhibits depict the technical progression of the accident. There is also many areas dedicated to the loss of life and cultural ramifications of the disaster. Due to the nature of the subject material, the museum provides a visually engaging experience.
In 2018, the monograph on his Chernobyl work, Growth and Decay: Pripyat and the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, was published. [7] It was accompanied by McMillan's first full-fledged retrospective in 2019 at the Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, Maryland titled McMillan's Chernobyl: An Intimation of the Way the World Would End curated by ...
Igor Fedorovich Kostin (27 December 1936 – 9 June 2015) was one of the five photographers in the world to take pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near Pripyat in Ukraine, [1] on 26 April 1986. He was working for Novosti Press Agency (APN) as a photographer in Kyiv, Ukraine, when he represented Novosti to cover the nuclear accident in ...
Chernobyl Reactors 5 and 6 are unbuilt reactors, a part of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant's third generation phase. Intended as RBMK-1000 units capable of approximately 1,000 megawatts each, construction began on 1 July 1981 and was partially completed by the time of the Chernobyl disaster on 26 April 1986. The reactors were abandoned afterwards ...
Chernobyl was chosen as the site of Ukraine's first nuclear power plant in 1972, located 15 kilometres (9 mi) north of the city, which opened in 1977. Chernobyl was evacuated on 5 May 1986, nine days after a catastrophic nuclear disaster at the plant, which was the largest nuclear