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Recommended Reading

Chernobyl Reader, published by FOCCUS, 1999.

The Sky Unwashed by Irene Zabytko. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 2000

No Breathing Room: The Aftermath of Chernobyl by Grigori Medvedev. Basic Books, 1993..

Life Exposed: Biological Citizens After Chernobyl by Adriana Petryna; Princeton University Press, 2002.

  • (This is a valuable ethnographic study which portrays how Ukraine responded to its citizens following the Chernobyl disaster; how Ukraine's system of benefits to Chernobyl "survivors" is implemented; implications for Ukraine statehood. We strongly suggest that you read this book; perhaps even bring it with you on the tour.)

The Human Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Accident: A Strategy for Recovery." A report commissioned by UNDP and UNICEF with the support of UN-OCHA and WHO.

"Report urges new approach to helping millions still hurting from Chernobyl disaster." - UN Development Programme

"Present and future environmental impact of the Chernobyl accident" (Large document: Read the conclusion and the two appendices.)

Participants should tap into the general IAEA web site to become familiar with the kind of documentation provided by the international community related to nuclear programs.

SIP Report - Overview of the Chernobyl Shelter Improvement Project. (Video file - will need RealPlayer to view.)

 

Brama info on Chernobyl

A Biker's Journey Through Chernobyl

World Nuclear Association: Nuclear Power in Russia

Teaching Resources - Information and ideas, multidisciplinary approach: The Global Classroom

Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste, and Radioecology
From The International Chernobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology, which we will visit. Check out "About us" and "Insight" magazine. Read issues #11, #12, #13

Chernobyl: 18 Years On

News from Chernobyl.info

"Bryansk: The Impact of Chernobyl"
A chapter in the book: An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life by J Donald Hughes; London and New York: Routledge, 2002 (available in paperback); used by permission of the author. (Microsoft Word format)

Chernobyl Poems by Liubov Sirota

Health

World Bank study of Ukraine healthcare

Swiss journal article on health effects of Chernobyl

Recommendations for medical examination of persons exposed to irradiation from the Chernobyl accident

Chronic Low-Dose Radioactive Exposure: False Alarm or Public Health Hazard?

Assessment of Chernobyl Health Consequences Meets With Resistance

Center at Boyarka Servicing Populations Evacuated from Chernobyl

European Committee on Radiation Risk: A New Source of Advice on the Health Effects of Radiation.

Environment

Land Rehabilitation in Belarus

The Environment and Nuclear Energy viz a viz Chernobyl

Information needs of people living on contaminated land - UN Development Programme; Chernobyl Recovery and Development Program of Ukraine; Kyiv, Ukraine 2003