‘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
‘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
‘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
British and Ukrainian scientists have gone to court to fight the seizure of of 1,500 special bottles of vodka made from ‘radioactive’ apples grown near Chernobyl. Destined for sale, the batch of ‘Atomik’ liquor was made to highlight efforts to study the changing landscape in the 1,000 sq. mile exclusion zone around the power plant. The … Read more
Nuclear reactions have been discovered smouldering ‘like embers at a barbecue’ in an inaccessible chamber at Chernobyl, according to scientists. A surge in neutrons have been observed in a chamber known as Subreactor Room 305/2, 35 years after the catastrophic nuclear disaster. Neutrons are particles in an atom, and are a signal of fission – the splitting … Read more
Children whose parents were exposed to radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster have no excess mutations, a new study reveals. Almost 35 years to the day after the catastrophic accident, researchers report a ‘lack of trans-generational effects’ of radiation exposure from the blast. The experts analysed genomes of children born to parents exposed to ionizing radiation … 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
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
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