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High Above Chernobyl, Workers Grapple With Ice, Fire and Nuclear Fears

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Five technicians secured by wires worked near the curved top of an arched steel structure that loomed the equivalent of 40 stories high, trying to extinguish the last bits of smoldering insulation left by a drone strike. It was snowing; the temperature was below freezing; the steel was covered with ice. The hole from the…

Citizen Scientists Reclaim Japan’s Nuclear Disaster Zone

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Every year when winter finally loosens its grip on northern Japan, Tomoko Kobayashi begins what has become an annual rite for her and a small band of collaborators. They head out with measuring devices to keep tabs on an invisible threat that still pollutes the mountains and forests around their homes: radioactivity. In her car,…