The Ukrainian government commissioned the dredging work for around 12m Ukrainian hryvnia (£320,000). The Actual Chernobyl Death Toll Is Way Greater Than The HBO Miniseries Could Ever Show. Conservationists are also concerned about loss of biodiversity. Estimates range between 4,000 and 93,000 deaths. The government appears to be proceeding with plans for the Siarzewo dam, one of 13 to 15 dams that would need to be built on the Vistula River. The dredging of the Pripyat began in July and is part of an international project to create the 2,000km (1,240-mile) long E40 waterway linking the Baltic and Black seas, passing through Poland, Belarus and Ukraine. Chernobyl death toll under 50. It’s hard to know the full death toll because of the long-term, generational effects of the nuclear disaster. The waterway would cut through a region called Polesia, an area two-thirds the size of the UK, often referred to as the Amazon of Europe because of its incredible diversity of wildlife, including 1.5 million migratory birds as well as bison, wolves, lynx and bears. Read more about the Chernobyl accident in this section! The decision by the Belarus Council of Ministers resulted in a new national program over 2011-15 and up to 2020 to alleviate the Chernobyl impact and return the areas to normal use with minimal restrictions. © 2021 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 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A cloud of radioactive material settled over Ukraine and Belarus after a critical failure blew apart a Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station reactor in 1986. Many people living hundreds of miles from the explosion site fell ill with illnesses in the aftermath of the disaster. Filed under boston dynamics , chernobyl , engineering , radiation , robots , 10/27/20 The Ukrainian state pays benefits to about 35,000 people whose spouses apparently died from Chernobyl-caused illnesses. CHERNOBYL could still be 'killing us' according to a new book which suggests the disaster may be responsible for the global rise in cancers and diseases. It has reported in 1988 and in 2000. Dimitri Diatchenko-- best known for his famous role in "Chernobyl Diaries" -- died from an accidental fentanyl and valium overdose.. Small vessels can already pass through but it will be deepened and widened to allow vessels up to 80 metres long to pass. Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor exploded in Ukraine on April 26, 1986, killed 31 people and resulted in the mass evacuation and abandonment of a huge area and led to an evacuation of 50,000 people. Scientists warn of threat of nuclear contamination from work on giant E40 waterway linking Baltic to the Black Sea, Wed 23 Dec 2020 02.30 EST “The safety of our workers is a top priority,” he said. Even after more than three decades, the death toll of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is still wildly disputed. Tim Radford, science editor. However, it seems the devastating impact of those living within the shadow and beyond of Chernobyl, is still not over 34 years after the disaster. Caldicott puts the death toll at 985,000. Samantha Day - 4 February 2020 @ 13:33. The official death toll of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, ‘the worst nuclear disaster in history’, is only 54, and stories today commonly suggest that nature is thriving there. 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