When I first moved to Berlin, someone told me that there is a radioactive metro station somewhere in the city. Since then, I was on a mission to find it but unfortunately, with little to no success… until recently. One of the most iconic places in Berlin must be the Brandenburger Tor and only one […]
On this day 35 years ago, reactor number 4 at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (CNPP) exploded releasing millions of becquerels of radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere and as a result, contaminating most of eastern Europe. It is still the worst nuclear disaster to ever take place in the history of humankind, scoring level 7 on […]
Exactly 10 years ago, a 9.2 magnitude earthquake hit Japan marking the beginning of one of the biggest nuclear disaster in history. The earthquake caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to switch to backup generators to run its cooling system. After about 50 minutes from the initial earthquake, a massive, 14-meter tall tsunami hit Japan’s […]