Essays about: "Chernobyl disaster"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the words Chernobyl disaster.

1. 1. Mediating the Past and Historicizing the Present: The HBO Series Chernobyl (2019) and Its Transnational Audience Responses on IMDb

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Filmvetenskap

   Author : Wei Xu; [2023]
   Keywords : Chernobyl; nuclear disaster; audience research; media and memories; cultural memory; television drama and history; Arts and Architecture; Cultural Sciences; History and Archaeology; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The Russian invasion of Ukraine has put the vulnerability of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant under the spotlight. Meanwhile, the remembrance and reflection of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 has been ongoing in different media among which the HBO mini-series Chernobyl (2019) stands out and resonates transnationally. READ MORE

3. 2. Visualizing the Invisible: An Exploration of the Radioactive Image within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Author : Fannie Frederikke Baden; [2020]
   Keywords : Radioactive Image; Nuclear Disaster; Nuclear power; Chernobyl; Disaster Tourism; Visual tropes; radioactivity; semiotics; visualized natural phenomena; Cultural Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the radioactive image and poses the multi-layered question: ‘(how) can radioactivity exist as an image, when it cannot be seen, heard or felt?’. By having no sensorial qualities, radioactivity is often narrated in popular media by metaphoric association. READ MORE

4. 3. Dating lake bottom sediment by searching for 210Pb using gamma-ray spectroscopy

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Tillämpad kärnfysik

   Author : William Bäckström; [2020]
   Keywords : sediment dating; dating; spectroscopy; gamma-ray; nuclear; lead; HPGe detector; sedimentation; sedimentation rate; attenuation; migration; limnologist; least squares;

   Abstract : In a collaboration with limnologists at Uppsala University a planar HPGe detector has been used to find 210Pb in lake bottom sediment in hopes of getting an estimation for the sedimentation rate. Using a least squares fit to the data, the sedimentation rate was calculated to 0.08 ± 0. READ MORE

5. 4. Nucleocrats don't sleep : The Cataclysm of Chernobyl as a Result of Technocratic Culture

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   Author : Achim Klüppelberg; [2016]
   Keywords : Nuclear; Nucleocrats; Technocratic Culture; Chernobyl;

   Abstract : Even though the disintegration of block four at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl happened a long time ago, the question of how this disaster could have developed is only insufficiently answered. Common interpretations with their emphasis on constructional and operative as well as regulative mistakes are not wrong, but describe instead only the symptoms and not the causes of the accident. READ MORE

6. 5. Communication challenges in transboundary crisis situations

   University essay from IT-universitetet i Göteborg/Tillämpad informationsteknologi

   Author : Philip Svensson; [2012-11-22]
   Keywords : crisis; crisis communication; crisis management; communication; disaster; multicultural crisis; transboundary crisis;

   Abstract : In recent years, the world has seen a series of catastrophes such as the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, the September 11 attacks in 2001, the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, the earthquake disaster in Haiti in 2010, and most recently the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. Common to all of these events is that they present numerous challenges for crisis management actors in terms of coordinating and communicating across geographical, cultural and political borders. READ MORE