Vladimir Chernousenko

Wladimir Michailowitsch Tschernoussenko ( Russian Владимир Михайлович Черноусенко , English transcription Vladimir Chernousenko ; born May 12, 1941 in Nju Jork , Donetsk Oblast ; † 1996 in Germany ) was a Ukrainian nuclear physicist . He became internationally known for his work in the Chernobyl exclusion zone and his criticism of the nuclear energy programs.

Life

In 1965 Chernousenko graduated from the Kharkiv State University with a degree in physics with a focus on theoretical atomic physics and took a position at the Institute of Physics at the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences in Kiev . In 1971 he moved to the Institute for Theoretical Physics. After receiving his doctorate in 1973, he took over the management of the Laboratory for Nonlinear Physics and Ecology, which he held until 1991. After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986, Chernousenko was a member of the Academy's Chernobyl Commission until 1991 and the scientific head of the task force that arrived at the reactor in May to plan decontamination and radiation protection measures and to build the “sarcophagus” (protective structure around the destroyed reactor). He worked in the exclusion zone until the beginning of 1987 regardless of the high doses of radiation that would have required his replacement. In the following years, Chernousenko became a well-known critic of nuclear energy in the western states , especially through his work Chernobyl - the truth (English Insights from the inside ).

In 1996 he died of complications from cancer .

Publications

• VM Chernousenko: Chernobyl: Insight from the inside. Springer, Berlin [a. a.] 1991, ISBN 3-540-53698-1 ( preface )
  • Chernobyl and the Collapse of Soviet Society , Jay M. Gould review, The Nation , March 15, 1993
    • Vladimir M. Chernousenko: Chernobyl. The truth. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992, ISBN 3-498-06505-X
• Testimony. 9-14-1992 . In: Sibylle Nahr & Uwe Peters (eds.): Poison Fire, Sacred Earth. Testimonies, lectures, conclusions. The World Uranium Hearing, Salzburg 1992. Munich 1993, ISBN 3-928505-00-9
• Chernobyl: The True Story . In: Synthesis / Regeneration. No. 10, Spring 1996 (Austin speech, February 1994)
• Buried Alive . In: Earth Island Journal. May / June 1996

literature

• People senselessly sacrificed . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1992, pp. 140 ff . ( online - cover story).
• Rolf S. Müller & Rainer Paul: "We kill you very quietly" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1992, pp. 151 ff . ( online interview).

Movie

• The Truth about Chernobyl. Interview with Karl Grossman. EnviroVideo, 1994, 45 min ( excerpt on YouTube ; 10:00 min)
• The time that still remains for me - Wladimir Tschernousenko Director: Detlev F. Neufert ARD, 45:00 min ( Youtube )

Web links

• Literature by and about Vladimir Tschernoussenko in the catalog of the German National Library

Footnotes

1. ^ Sunny Side: Chernobyl, Cancer and the Contradictory Death Numbers ( Memento from June 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). April 11, 2006