On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...
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 ...
The Chernobyl disaster alerted Soviet leaders to the need for a better “safety culture” within its nuclear program—but the ...
CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Ukraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant — the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history. It comes four years into the ...
Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again and again. Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor ...
Concrete crumbling like sand, their faces burning red from the radiation. Sky News speaks to Chernobyl workers who did everything they could to prevent a second explosion forty years ago.