UKRAINE NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY FEATURE – CHERNOBYL, NEW REACTORS, RUSSIA

March 1st, 2006

BY MARK ROWE THIS year marks the 20th anniversary of the catastrophic steam explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station, when a plume of radioactive fallout from Chernobyl-4 drifted over the western parts of the former Soviet Union, Poland, Scandinavia, Britain and the east coast of the United States. While it is true that Chernobyl has overshadowed Ukraine's nuclear industry in the intervening years - not least because the country has been burdened with continuing and substantial costs for decontamination and health - nuclear energy continues to play a ...


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