After Christopher Nolan's hit 'Oppenheimer' movie, the US Senate increased compensation for victims of radiation exposure from nuclear arms research in the Southwest.
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It’s something the world nuclear energy community never thought it would see and thus never prepared for. June 1, 2023 by Charles Digges https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2023-06-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-report For a year and a half, the world has bourn witness to an unprecedented spectacle: the military occupation of a civilian atomic energy station. The March 2022 seizure by Russian troops of…
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fortifications, including in highly radioactive areas. and the ukrainian authorities i ve talked to say, look, we are aware of the radiation risks, not least to the soldiers themselves. but one of the problems is that they stole all our monitoring equipment, so the full scale of the potential risk is not yet clear. what we ve seen, what people i ve spoken to around chernobyl have been saying, is that thousands, thousands of russian military vehicles were going through this sort of forbidden exclusion zone hourly. as part of their attempts, boomed attempt, unsuccessful attempt, to seize the ukrainian capital, kyiv. it seems incredible that they didn t have any kind of idea or any kind of protective equipment, knowing that this was an area of high radioactivity. it questions the preparation and training these soldiers received before they were sent on this invasion.