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 Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...
From soil and water, radioactive materials also moved into plants and animals, which posed risks to human health ...
Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...
At 1:23 am on April 26, 1986, a routine safety test at one of ...
The Chernobyl disaster alerted Soviet leaders to the need for a better “safety culture” within its nuclear program—but the ...
Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.
Exactly 40 years ago, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was destroyed in the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever seen.
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Explore April 26's historic impact from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster to milestones in colonization, wars, science, and ...
Ukraine marked the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster on Sunday. FRANCE 24 spoke with Michael Bluck, Director ...