*[Enwl-eng] Discussion Chernobyl 2022: How did this happen, and how should nuclear safety approaches change? - April 21

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A discussion “Chernobyl 2022: How did this happen, and how should nuclear 
safety approaches change?” that will take place on Thursday, April 21 at 3 
pm London (GMT+2) |  5 pm Vilnius, Kiev (GMT+3).

Please register here to participate and ask questions to the speakers. Also, 
you can follow discussion via Livestreaming via YouTube Research Center of 
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Office.




Chernobyl 2022: How did this happen, and how should nuclear safety 
approaches change?



Russia's war against Ukraine has shattered the nuclear safety control 
system: existing international institutions and mechanisms appear to have 
been ineffective, and new ones have yet to emerge. Nuclear power plants, 
which store large amounts of highly hazardous spent nuclear fuel (SNF), 
became not only a target but also provided military footholds for the 
Russian army for the first time in history. The Chernobyl nuclear power 
plant (ChNPP) has again found itself at the epicentre of events that could 
result in a new radiation disaster on a scale greater than 1986 and 
Fukushima. Russian troops deactivated the radiation monitoring systems at 
the captured stations, cut the power to the ChNPP several times, and carried 
out active movements and military operations in the exclusion zone, 
including in the heavily polluted red forest. As a result of ongoing 
shelling, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warning system for 
the state of nuclear materials at the seized nuclear power plants has been 
disabled.



Politicians and the general public, on the other hand, draw opposing 
conclusions from the current situation. While some leaders proclaim the need 
for new nuclear power plants, many members of civil society around the world 
believe that the situation in nuclear energy, which has worsened as a result 
of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, demonstrates new risks and the need to 
scale back existing projects. What is happening at Ukraine's nuclear power 
plants during the war? How do the existing institutions for monitoring the 
safety of nuclear facilities function and should they be reformed? How can 
and should approaches to regional security change? In the face of new 
radiation challenges and threats, how should politicians and civil society 
in Belarus, Ukraine, and other countries act? These and other questions will 
be discussed at the expert webinar jointly convened by the Research Centre 
of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya Office (OST Research Centre), the Oxford Belarus 
Observatory (OBO) and GLOBSEC think tank in cooperation with NGO Ecohome 
(Belarus).



Moderator:

Alena Kudzko, Vice President of GLOBSEC & Director, GLOBSEC Policy Institute



Speakers:

Tatyana Novikova, Campaigner, specialist in Sustainability. Belarusian 
anti-nuclear campaign, Ecohome.

David Marples, Distinguished Professor of History, University of Alberta

Olexi Pasyuk, Deputy director in the environmental civil society 
organisation ‘Ecoaction’

Dr Eglė Rindzevičiūtė,  Kingston University, London






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