In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...
The nuclear incident at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe and led to political changes that played a role in the ...
April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the ...
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PHOTO ESSAY: AP photographer chronicles Chernobyl’s painful legacy of silence, sacrifice and danger
Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...
Can we ever really understand Chernobyl? These five shows and videogames give a pretty good glimpse of what the disaster ...
The 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster fueled global fears about nuclear energy and slowed down its development in Europe and ...
Three books on the tragedy provide a detailed understanding on what transpired, drawing on Soviet archives, KGB documents, ...
Sergei Belyakov was one of the brave volunteers who shovelled radioative debris scattered by the explosion back into reactor ...
IT was known as the Stairway To Hell – a suffocating chamber leading to the roof of Chernobyl’s reactor four, which had been ...
The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will ...
"On April 26, 1986, the men who responded to Chernobyl thought they were fighting a fire. They weren’t. In this episode, we ...
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