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Victoria Markovna Ivleva-York (Russian: Виктория Марковна Ивлева-Йорк) is a Russian photographer and political activist.In 1992 she was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year award in the Science & Technology category for her series of photographs taken on 1 January 1991 of the Chernobyl plant.
Included in this category are non-free fair use images related to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, an important topic of unique historical significance. Media in category "Images related to the Chernobyl disaster"
The Chernobyl nuclear power plant is located next to the Pripyat River, which feeds into the Dnieper reservoir system, one of the largest surface water systems in Europe, which at the time supplied water to Kiev's 2.4 million residents, and was still in spring flood when the accident occurred.
Then when the devastating Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred in Ukraine in 1986, one of Gil’s daughters picked up and moved to New York City. Six years later, the rest of the family followed ...
A 95-year-old woman — who had survived the Nazi invasion of Ukraine, the Chernobyl disaster and the COVID-19 pandemic — died after she was struck by a truck while crossing the street. Mayya ...
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The 2004 novel Cloud Atlas (and its 2012 film adaptation) has a section in which a female journalist is nearly murdered via car accident to prevent her from publishing a report on a conspiracy to cause a nuclear power plant catastrophe. Silkwood's death is mentioned in the Netflix TV documentary mini series Meltdown: Three Mile Island (2022).
Initially, the Soviet Union's toll of deaths directly caused by the Chernobyl disaster included only the two Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant workers killed in the immediate aftermath of the explosion of the plant's reactor. However, by late 1986, Soviet officials updated the official count to 30, reflecting the deaths of 28 additional plant ...