Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again ...
The nuclear incident at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe and led to political changes that played a role in the ...
IN the dead of night 40 years ago on April 26, 1986, nothing seemed out of the ordinary at the now abandoned Chernobyl ...
On 26 April, 1986, a reactor exploded at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist ...
The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 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 ...
Nataliia Khodymchuk lived in memory of her late husband, Valerii, the first worker to die in the nuclear meltdown at ...
Concrete crumbling like sand, their faces burning red from the radiation. Sky News speaks to Chernobyl workers who did ...
The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the ...
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Chernobyl, 40 years since nuclear disaster

On April 26, 1986, human error during a safety test caused a blast at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, with thousands estimated to have died from radiation exposure, fuelling public fears over ...
Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...
Danny Grossman, once a U.S. diplomat in the USSR, remembers Chernobyl — and an awkward dinner with a refusenik family.