Forty years ago, in April 1986, there was an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the worst nuclear accident in history. Then the plant was in the USSR, it is part of northern ...
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 ...
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 ...
On April 26, 1986, a series of events led to the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl station, located in Pripyat, about 65 miles north of Kyiv in present-day Ukraine. The ...
Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...
Collider recently ranked the “10 Best Miniseries From the Last 10 Years,” which is an excellent resource for anyone looking to binge-watch a new show in a single day. Making t ...
As a blue coach pulls up outside Chernobyl nuclear-power plant, friendly stray dogs approach it. It has passed through multiple Ukrainian military checkpoints—necessary since Russian troops briefly ...
COLUMBIA — Forty years ago, in the early hours of April 26, 1986, a test gone wrong at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near present-day Pripyat, Ukraine, created an explosion that rendered the ...
Forty years ago, in April 1986, there was an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the worst nuclear accident in history. Then... 40 years after families survived the Chernobyl ...