Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, radiation was so deadly it could kill in minutes. Yet one pilot was ordered to fly directly over the burning nuclear core and drop a massive probe with impossible ...

Chernobyl's nuclear plant still stands frozen in time 40 years later, preserving the scars of disaster while shaping the future of nuclear safety.

The catastrophic disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 was caused by an explosion at the Reactor 4 Unit. This expelled a sizeable quantity of radioactive material into the surroundings ...

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Chernobyl was back in the news recently as the decrepit nuclear plant changed hands during Russia's invasion of Ukraine and power was briefly cut. The unstable situation raised fears that pools of ...

On April 26, 1986 — 40 years ago today — a reactor at a Soviet nuclear power station 80 miles from Kiev — now Kyiv, Ukraine — exploded. Much of the radioactive core was vaporized, thrown into the ...