Abstract
The alarm generated by the Chernobyl fallout has heightened Ukrainian awareness toward ecological issues. While the impetus for this concern initially came from Moscow, the Ukrainian aspects of the Soviet ecology movement represent one of the most serious issues of today. It is impossible to discuss the economic future of Ukraine or the possibility of an economically sovereign Ukraine without taking into account environmental issues. Ecology has become a populist topic, one that raises emotions and frustrations and, moreover, one that encompasses a broad spectrum of the population. In essence it concerns the present and future existence of Ukrainians and whether they will live in a healthy or polluted climate. The problems that have been elucidated predate Mikhail Gorbachev, and many also predate the days of Leonid Brezhnev, who is widely cited as the main culprit for expanding industry so carelessly throughout the republic in the 1960s and 1970s.KeywordsNuclear Power PlantNuclear Power StationUkrainian AcademyNuclear PlantWater EconomyThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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