On the 25th anniversary of the disaster at the chernobyl nuclear power plant

Bregadze, Yu. I.; Vinnik, V. I.; Stepanov, É. K.; Yaryna, V. P.

doi:10.1007/s11018-011-9733-9

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“…It appears to have been somewhat of a surprise to many nuclear experts that the machine acted in the world. Indeed, a number of researchers have argued that the way the disaster occurred was a "hypothetically unpredictable, inconceivable accident" (Bregadze et al 2011; see also Kortov and Ustyantsev, 2013). This is the result of seeing matter as entirely inert and incapable of acting in the world in consequential ways.…”

Section: The Modern Ontology and The Chernobyl Disastermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The consequences were catastrophic. Twenty-eight people who attempted to mitigate the disaster died of acute radiation sickness (Jaworowski 2010), seventy tons of nuclear fuel was ejected into the atmosphere and the surrounding area by the explosion, causing clouds of radiation to spread across Europe (Kortov and Ustyantsev 2013), the suppression of the disaster and the clean-up operation pushed the USSR to the brink of bankruptcy (Gorbachev 2006), and hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from the surrounding area (Bregadze et al 2011). But even today, decades later, the disaster continues to unfold in new and unexpected ways.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Posthumanist Perspectives and the Chernobyl Disaster: Dances of Agency, Temporal Emergence, and Disaster Risk Management

Abbott¹

2016

International Journal of Mass Emergencies & Disasters

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This article applies the philosophical perspective of posthumanism to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. A posthumanist perspective attempts to break with the notion of human exceptionalism by recognising the performative agency of the non-human. It is maintained that such an approach is necessary to understanding how the disaster occurred in the first place, the calamitous initial responses the disaster, and its long-term consequence – including the environmental restoration that has occurred in the exclusion zone. Indeed, it is argued that much of the previous literature on the disaster takes the perspective of human exceptionalism, which has led to a failure to accurately interpret how the disaster unfolded and how it continues to emerge.

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Section: The Modern Ontology and The Chernobyl Disastermentioning

confidence: 99%