Cité des Sciences : Science newsScience news powered by la Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, ParisCHERNOBYL: an impossible assessment- April 23, 2006 On 26th April 1986, one of the reactors of the Chernobyl nuclear power station exploded, releasing an exceptional quantity of radioactivity into the atmosphere. Twenty years later, the argument over the real extent of the greatest civil nuclear catastrophe in history is still far from over...http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/question_actu.p... Le sacrifice, un documentaire de Wladimir Tchertkoff- April 23, 2006 Lorsque la centrale de Tchernobyl explose le 26 avril 1986, les autorits sovitiques dpchent une vritable arme pour tenter d'teindre l'incendie. Sans l'intervention de ces centaines de milliers d'anonymes, le volume d'lments radioactifs dispers dans les airs aurait pu tre beaucoup plus important. Le journaliste Wladimir Tchertkoff, spcialiste de Tchernobyl, leur rend hommage.http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/question_actu.p... VENUS EXPRESS: in orbit around the morning star- April 19, 2006 After a five-month journey through space, the European probe Venus Express has successfully gone into orbit around Venus. Over more than 550 days, it will attempt to find out why Earth's "sister" did not turn out like our planet.(Only in french)http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/question_actu.p... AIDS: What access to medication in the South countries- April 9, 2006 Current status regarding access to antiretroviral drugs in the South countries, one year after the application of the OMC agreements on intellectual property, which prohibit developing countries from copying new drugs.(Only in french)http://www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ala_cite/science_actualites/sitesactu/question_actu.p... |