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Gorbachev: Don’t Give up Hope for World without Nuclear Weapons

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 2020
In this interview carried out by two staff writers of the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev recalls how he engaged in dialogues with the United States in the final years of the Cold War.
Hideki Soejima, Takashi Kida
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“What is the cost of lies?”: Historiography of a Disaster and Collapse of the Soviet Metanarrative in Craig Mazin and Johan Renck’s HBO miniseries Chernobyl [PDF]

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series, 2022
HBO's five-episode docudrama Chernobyl (2019) is an attempt to reimagine the horrific nuclear explosion of 1986 in Pripyat, and what it was like to live through the catastrophic tragedy. Throughout the extent of the show, the creators are seen attempting
Deepayan Datta, Arindam Nandi
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The Rationale for a Safe Distance Between Fermenters for Biogas Production [PDF]

Bezpieczeństwo i Technika Pożarnicza, 2018
Introduction: The introduction to this paper deals with the question of defining fire-prevention distances for constructions in a modern energy enterprise operating on alternative energy sources, which can also simultaneously produce gas, electricity and
S.V. Pozdieiev, V.V. Nizhnyk, Y.V. Ballo, A.M. Nuianzin, R.V. Uhanskyy, V.S. Kropyvnytskiy   +5 more
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DNA Extracted From Aged Formalin‐Fixed Paraffin‐Embedded Specimens of Patients With Papillary Thyroid Carcinomas Can Be Used for Whole Exome Sequencing

Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis, EarlyView.
We aimed to assess the quality of DNA extracted from long‐term stored FFPE specimens of patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma from three hospitals in Hiroshima and their applicability to whole exome sequencing. FFPE samples preserved for up to 55 years may be amenable to sequencing with increased read depth.
Kousuke Tanimoto, Tomonori Hayashi, Hidewaki Nakagawa, Kazuhiro Maejima, Koji Arihiro, Megumu Fujihara, Takashi Nishisaka, Masahiro Ito, Masahiro Nakashima, Naohiro Kato, Zhenqiu Liu, Misa Imaizumi, Alina Brenner, Stephen J. Chanock, Osamu Tanabe, Kotaro Ozasa   +15 more
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Integrating Multiple Approaches to Reveal the Spatiotemporal Pattern of Soil Erosion in Mollisol Watershed

Land Degradation &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although numerous prediction methods have been developed, scientific estimation of the spatiotemporal pattern of soil erosion at the watershed scale remains challenging. In this study, fallout radionuclides of 210Pbex and 137Cs were used to estimate average annual soil erosion and deposition in a Mollisol watershed in Northeast China ...
Shaoliang Zhang, Hao Wang, Ziliang Xiao, Pengke Yan, Lanqian Feng, Mingming Guo, Wei Hu, Xingyi Zhang   +7 more
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How to stay wild in a highly domesticated landscape? Spatiotemporal behaviour of wolves in Germany

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Wild animals can adapt to the increasing presence of humans by either becoming accustomed to it or by avoiding humans by spatiotemporal separation. The return of the wolf to the German lowlands raised the opportunity to study wolf behaviour in one of the most densely populated and fragmented countries in Europe, in an area where topography offers no ...
Ilka Reinhardt, Ugo Arbieu, Philipp Mendgen, Barbara Zimmermann, Anne Berger, Gesa Kluth, Thomas Mueller   +6 more
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Muroid rodent communities in areas with varying degrees of fire damage: the Chernobyl polygons

Theriologia Ukrainica
As a result of climate change, forest fires are becoming a common factor in the dynamics of ecosystems in the forest zone of Ukraine, but the assessment of the consequences of this shift in the ecological situation is in the process of pilot studies.
Denys Vyshnevskyi
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Responsible Innovation: The Impact of Major Industrial Disasters and Gender in a Global South Context

Journal of Product Innovation Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Responsible innovation (RI) dynamics remain underexplored in Global South contexts, which have a high prevalence of micro‐ and small enterprises and are vulnerable to the devastating effects of industrial disasters. Only a few studies examine RI within such settings, where it is arguably needed most.
Afreen Choudhury, Magda Hassan, Jarrod P. Vassallo, Chinmay Pattnaik   +3 more
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Soviet Chernobyl vs American Three Mile Island: Information Space as a Factor in Social Crisis

Київські історичні студії
The article is devoted to the study of the features of communication and information policy during the periods of the two most famous nuclear accidents of the 20th century: at the Three Mile Island NPP in the USA (1979) and at the Chernobyl NPP in the ...
Svyatoslav Yusov
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Debate on the Chernobyl Disaster: On the Causes of Chernobyl Overestimation

International Journal of Health Services, 2012
The Journal is pleased to publish an exchange of articles on the nuclear catastrophe at Chernobyl that has special importance in the light of the Fukushima situation in Japan. After the Chernobyl accident, many publications appeared that overestimated its medical consequences. Some of them are discussed in this article.
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