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 ...
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 ...
Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.
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Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster
New Scientist reporter Matthew Sparkes secured unrivalled access to Chernobyl's most crucial scientific sites, where ...
Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again ...
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Chernobyl survivors reveal what they'll 'never forget until death' 40 years after nuclear disaster
The name of the ill-fated nuclear power plant will live long in the memory - though perhaps the estimated 20,000 years of ...
Daily Mail on MSN
The untold race to escape Chernobyl: How one woman risked her life to save 45,000 people
When reactor number four at the Chernobyl power plant exploded, debris emanated radiation at a level of 10,000 roentgens per ...
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