‘More Chernobyl than Champneys!’: ‘Misled’ glampers paying up to £2,000 for three nights say they were promised five-star luxury and cocktails but got overpriced beer and a fish and chip van instead Cloud Nine glamping company owns three sites running over summer holidays It promises visitors luxury and claims to also ‘offer the ultimate family … Read more
Ben Fogle has revealed he sat his children down to talk to them about the dangers of radiation before heading into Chernobyl’s high-radiation Exclusion Zone. The 47-year-old TV star’s new documentary, Inside Chernobyl with Ben Fogle, which airs on Channel 5 this week, sees him visit the abandoned city of Pripyat in Ukraine, which lay in … Read more
The Russian helicopter pilot who endured lethal radiation levels to contain the Chernobyl disaster has died after contracting coronavirus. General Nikolai Antoshkin, who was 78, died in his home country last Sunday. He commanded an operation to seal off the number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl power station just outside the town Pripyat in Ukraine, … Read more
Crops grown near Chernobyl are still contaminated, more than three decades after the worst nuclear disaster in history. Almost half the grain analyzed by scientists in Ivankiv, about 30 miles from the power plant, showed levels of strontium 90 far above recommended levels. It was also present at unsafe levels in firewood and wood ash … Read more
Award-winning Sky hit Chernobyl becomes show most likely to hook viewers from start to finish By Roxy Simons For Mailonline Published: 10:02 GMT, 27 October 2020 | Updated: 10:07 GMT, 27 October 2020 Chernobyl was found to be the show most likely to hook viewers from start to finish, according to new research released on … Read more
Humans could live on the planet Mars if a fungi which spawned inside the Chernobyl nuclear reactor is used to protect against radiation, scientists say. A layer of the fungus around 21 centimetres thick could ‘largely negate the annual dose-equivalent of the radiation environment on the surface of Mars’, researchers found. ‘What makes the fungus … Read more
The nominations for the BAFTA Television Awards and Television Craft Awards 2020 have been announced. Explosive HBO show Chernobyl leads the nods with a staggering 14 nominations across the two awards, while The Crown and Fleabag have racked up a respectable seven and six nominations. Chernobyl is the explosive HBO show that has taken the … Read more
Chernobyl Diaries actor Dimitri Diatchenko’s cause of death is revealed as ‘fentanyl and valium overdose’ days after being ‘electrocuted’ at work By Jason Chester and Heidi Parker for MailOnline Published: 13:19 BST, 27 May 2020 | Updated: 13:50 BST, 27 May 2020 Chernobyl Diaries star Dimitri Diatchenko’s official cause of death has been recorded as … Read more
A top White House official on Sunday likened China’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak to the Soviet Union’s cover-up of the meltdown at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. National security adviser Robert O’Brien said Beijing knew what was happening with the virus, which originated in Wuhan, from November but lied to the World … Read more