April 26, 1986. An explosion and fire occurred at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet ...

Thirty years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl power plant is surrounded by both desolation and clangorous activity, the sense of a ruined past and a difficult future. The plant ...

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 power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

After the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, scientists explored using sunflowers for radioactive cleanup. Sunflowers ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Sophia Arkadiyivna remembers when the Soviet Union built the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1977, just 20 miles from the village where she served as mayor. After years of atomic ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — On contaminated land that is too dangerous for human life, the world’s wildest horses roam free. Across the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Przewalski’s horses — stocky, sand-colored ...

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On the morning of Saturday, 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 of the Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin Atomic Power Station near the town of Chernobyl in modern Ukraine experienced a "minor accident." As the cooling ...

We explored the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone with metal detectors, using a heavy-duty hydraulic jack to investigate building ...

Hiroshima's residual radiation fell a millionfold in a week, and Chernobyl's contaminated zone has contracted for thirty years. The uranium in Gauteng's mine dumps does neither — and a licence conditi ...