The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...
Halyna Kharshenko went to work at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986, unaware of the scale and severity of ...
The Chernobyl disaster alerted Soviet leaders to the need for a better “safety culture” within its nuclear program—but the ...
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, ...
In this 1986 photo, a Chernobyl nuclear power plant worker holding a dosimeter to measure radiation level is seen against the background of a sarcophagus under construction over the 4th destroyed ...
Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...
The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart.
What does the wealth of books, documentaries and dramas about the Chernobyl disaster tell us that history alone cannot?
Forty years after the accident, some residents still refuse to leave, even after Vladimir Putin’s army occupied the area in ...