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Radionucleotides might feature in future Champagne vintages as dumpsite reports leaks. Enlarge Image

Radioactive Champagne in our future?

Ahhh, a fine Champagne. A delicate nose. Full body. Great colour. And that indescribable sensation when you raise your glass of having your tongue tickled by .... TRITIUM???

Construction of the sarcophagus (cover) over the destroyed Chernobyl reactor. Enlarge Image

Greenpeace Chernobyl Anniversary statement

Today, on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster we must reflect on the impact of the day that changed the world's view of nuclear power. Chernobyl was not simply an industrial accident. It was a human tragedy on an unimaginable scale. Our recent report about the true health impact of the explosion and its aftermath show that the estimates of the number of people who died or who now have terminal or chronic illnesses as a result of Chernobyl could be many-fold higher than was originally thought.

Sisters Irina and Elena live in an area of Belarus contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster. Both have had brain tumours removed and now have problems with their thyroid gland. Enlarge Image

Nuclear nightmares

Elena was playing outside 20 years ago. Not far away the Chernobyl reactor was melting down. Since then both her and her sister have had brain cancer. Facts and figures, scientists and politicians, can't tell you the terrible consquences of nuclear power gone wrong. Only the victims can.

Collecting soil samples from areas contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster. Enlarge Image

Chernobyl radioactive waste returned

We have returned a large radioactive reminder of the Chernobyl disaster to the UN body pushing nuclear power. Radioactive soil was placed in the lobby of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that has been trying to hide the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

In the cancer ward of a Kiev hospital in the Ukraine, 19-year-old Elena is being treated for her second case of thyroid cancer in just 3 years Enlarge Image

Chernobyl death toll grossly underestimated

A new Greenpeace report has revealed that the full consequences of the Chernobyl disaster could top a quarter of a million cancer cases and nearly 100,000 fatal cancers.

Chernobyl certificate No 000358

Being a victim of the Chernobyl disaster means more than just a number. Often it's a lifetime of suffering due to a dirty, dangerous industry still being promoted with your tax money.

Greenpeace activists protesting nuclear power at Cattenom. Enlarge Image

Greenpeace defies plutonium secrecy ban

Greenpeace today informed the French government at a hearing that we will not remove information concerning nuclear waste transports from our websites. This defies an order from the French Ministry of Industry to treat all information regarding nuclear materials in France and their transport as state secrets. As a consequence, Greenpeace France and its staff may be facing jail and fines for informing the public about dangerous plutonium shipments.

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