Capitalist Meltdown

Managing Syria s Meltdown

Europe s Scientific Meltdown

Motor City Meltdown

Anatomy of a Financial Meltdown

China Confronts the Global Meltdown

Melting Pot or Economic Meltdown

First, of course, the economic meltdown.

The nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl 20 years ago this month, even more than my launch of perestroika, was perhaps the real cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union five years later. Indeed, the Chernobyl catastrophe was an historic turning point there was the era before the disaster, and there is the very different era that has followed.

Chernobyl Forum

The Middle East Meltdown and Global Risk

Chernobyl Union International

The Chernobyl Forum and the International Chernobyl Research and Information Network play a key role in promoting international cooperation on the problems related to Chernobyl.

Turning Point at Chernobyl

Are Humans Worse than Chernobyl?

International Chernobyl Research and Information Network

The findings of the Chernobyl Forum contained a reassuring message on the impact of radiation from the Chernobyl accident.

The logistics of this transfer, including responsibility for the United Nations Chernobyl Trust Fund and the website entitled The United Nations and Chernobyl (http www.un.org ha chernobyl), will be completed in 2005.

In Ukraine, United Nations support to Chernobyl is delivered primarily through the UNDP Chernobyl recovery and development programme, which supports the Government of Ukraine in promoting long term social, economic and environmental recovery in Chernobyl affected areas.

China, which has 77 nuclear reactors at various stages of construction, planning, and discussion, has said that it will review its program. Though Russia has formally announced that it will go ahead with its program, former President Mikhail Gorbachev on whose watch the Chernobyl meltdown occurred 25 years ago is not so sanguine.

Other efforts to raise international awareness on Chernobyl

Both organizations participated in the International Chernobyl Project.

55 171. Closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

The event featured the showing of an award winning documentary film on the health situation in the Chernobyl affected territories and speeches from Chernobyl related charities.

The Committee had participated in the Chernobyl Forum, whose important mission had covered many aspects of the Chernobyl accident, including the review of radiation health effects.

Fukushima is likely to stunt the appeal of nuclear power in a way similar to the accident at the Three Mile Island plant in Pennsylvania in 1979, not to mention the far more severe meltdown of the Chernobyl reactor in 1986. If the fallout from those incidents is a reliable guide, however, nuclear power s advocates will eventually be back.

The three countries most affected by Chernobyl Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine continue to shoulder most of the burden of the Chernobyl legacy (for the reports of the three affected States regarding their efforts to overcome the consequences of Chernobyl, see annexes I III).

The Chernobyl tissue bank, established in 2000, is an international project to collect thyroid tissues from cancer patients who, as children or adolescents, were exposed to Chernobyl fallout.

7. Stresses the need for coordinated international cooperation in studying the consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe, in particular through effective work of the International Chernobyl Research and Information Network, the Chernobyl Forum, the International Chernobyl Centre for nuclear safety, radioactive waste and radioecology, and other research centres from the most affected countries, and invites Member States and all interested parties to take part in their activities

Noting the consensus reached among members of the Chernobyl Forum on the findings of the reports entitled Environmental Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident and their Remediation Twenty Years of Experience and Health Effects of the Chernobyl Accident and Special Health Care Programmes , and recognizing the important contribution made by the Forum to the overall assessment of the environmental, health, and socio economic effects of the Chernobyl disaster,

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In 2002, the United Nations adopted a new strategy on Chernobyl.

The World Bank has focused its Chernobyl recovery activities on Belarus.

Next year will mark the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.

For Belarus, whose territory received some 70 per cent of the radioactive fall out as a result of the Chernobyl disaster, the problem of Chernobyl is the most topical.

17. Requests the United Nations Coordinator of International Cooperation on Chernobyl to organize, in collaboration with the Governments of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, a further study of the health, environmental and socio economic consequences of the Chernobyl accident, consistent with the recommendations of the Chernobyl Forum

Requests the United Nations Coordinator of International Cooperation on Chernobyl to organize, in collaboration with the Governments of the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation and Ukraine, a further study of health, environmental and socio economic consequences of the Chernobyl accident, consistent with the recommendations of the Chernobyl Forum

The Chernobyl Forum grew out of an understanding that uncertainty and misconceptions about the impact of Chernobyl were widespread, even among the scientific and medical communities in the affected countries.

The needs of the Chernobyl affected populations have changed greatly over time.

Currently at the Chernobyl industrial site four major projects are being implemented.

Mr. Mikhail Kozlovsky, Acting Chairman of the Executive Board, Children of Chernobyl

The project will intensify discussions between the World Bank and the Government on streamlining Chernobyl expenditures, and also serve as a first step towards other activities focusing on Chernobyl and Belarus.

In keeping with the new developmental approach to Chernobyl, it is important that commemorative events are forward looking and focus on identifying solutions to the challenges that Chernobyl affected communities face.

This work drew heavily on the report entitled The human consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident a strategy for recovery , as well as on the World Bank report entitled Belarus Chernobyl review .

Following up on the Secretary General's visit to the Chernobyl area in 2002, the United Nations Coordinator of International Cooperation on Chernobyl visited the region from 25 January to 3 February 2004.