Olena Pareniuk

Radiobiologist, Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants

Senior researcher at the Institute for Safety Problems of Nuclear Power Plants of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Co-author of the book “The Terrible, the Beautiful and the Ugly in Chornobyl. From Disaster to Laboratory”.

INSCIENCE CONFERENCE 2023 Program:

How to explore space in Chornobyl
Lecture by Olena Pareniuk

The Chornobyl Exclusion Zone and the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant are unique. Although being the sites of a man-made disaster, they can be used to study…space. Or rather, space radiation, which is one of the reasons why we cannot travel to Mars yet.

● Why we should change our attitude to the Chornobyl exclusion zone and see it not only as a problem but also as an opportunity?
● What are the prospects for conducting research inside the Chornobyl NPP sarcophagus?
● Why the experts from NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) are interested in the results of such research?
● Why bacteria living in a destroyed nuclear reactor can help us disassemble destroyed reactors?
● What is needed to create a space research laboratory in Chornobyl?