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 ...

In April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster unfolded in what was then the Soviet Union. What began as a late-night safety test at Reactor No. 4 quickly turned into the ...

The accident resulted in psychological trauma, stigmatization and social disruption. The long-term economic costs are estimated in the hundreds of billions of dollars. All of the Chernobyl reactors ...