The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...
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 ...
On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded—a combination of poor reactor design and ...
Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.
Concrete crumbling like sand, their faces burning red from the radiation. Sky News speaks to Chernobyl workers who did ...
Doomed by a fatal design flaw and pushed to the limit by human negligence, reactor 4 exploded amid an attempted shutdown ...
On February 14th, 2025, a large drone struck the side of the New Safe Confinement, the megastructure that was designed to ...
For the past 40 years, the wastes of the Chernobyl site have stood as a monument to human arrogance, the danger of secrets, ...
I saw it for the first time in 1972,” Natalia Oliinychenko says, looking at Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant; “it was amazing ...
Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Instead of fleeing ...
The crew at the nuclear power plant wanted to test the reactor's behavior during a power failure, triggering the most serious ...