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 ...
The Chernobyl disaster began in the early hours of April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a safety test. The explosion and subsequent fire sent a plume of ...
April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, still considered the world's worst nuclear accident. In 1986, a safety test at reactor number four in Soviet-controlled Ukraine went ...
PRIPYAT, Ukraine -- Klavdia Omelchenko has never summoned the courage to return to her former home in the town of Pripyat-- hastily abandoned during the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 -- until now ...
In the novel "When There Are Wolves Again" by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...
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 ...
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 ...