What do we really know about the day that changed how we view nuclear power?

Zelensky, proclaiming “Chernobyl — from the exclusion zone ... On Friday, military and police checkpoints stopped cars every few miles. A convoy of military trucks moved toward the plant.

At that time, Chernobyl and its nearest town, Pripyat, belonged to the Soviet Union. Today they are in northern Ukraine and Pripyat is a ghost town where time has stopped forever, as these images ...

West German customs officials screening goods, cars and people coming in from Eastern Europe, where radioactivity from the Chernobyl nuclear plant threatened to contaminate crops during May 1986 ...