The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...
Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.
Sergei Belyakov was one of the brave volunteers who shovelled radioative debris scattered by the explosion back into reactor number four.
On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...
The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...
Olena Maruzhenko remembers her mother sobbing when Soviet police told them to evacuate their home in the village of Korogod in northern Ukraine. Just 12km away, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear ...
IN the dead of night 40 years ago on April 26, 1986, nothing seemed out of the ordinary at the now abandoned Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Engineers were carrying out safety tests on Reactor 4 ...
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