The invasion has raised questions about Chernobyl, infamous for the worst nuclear disaster in history. On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at Chernobyl's Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Station ...

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The Chernobyl disaster had other fallout: The economic and political toll hastened the end of the USSR and fueled a global anti-nuclear movement. The disaster has been estimated to cost some $235 ...

Chernobyl Roulette. By Serhii Plokhy. W.W. Norton; 240 pages; $29.99. Allen Lane; £25. I N THE SMALL hours of February 24th 2022, Valentyn Heiko received a phone call at work. Gunfire could be ...

May 1 was one of the biggest holidays in the Soviet calendar. In 1986, celebrations across the Soviet Union were overshadowed by what had happened just days before: the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

In the aftermath of the 1986 explosion — as the government evacuated more than 50,000 residents from the town of Pripyat, including the families of nuclear plant workers, plus more than 75,000 ...

On April 25, 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster befell the Chernobyl, Ukraine Power Plant. However, unlike the 2011 Fukushima, Japan nuclear crisis, the Chernobyl reactor explosion was ...

The April 1986 disaster at Chernobyl’s nuclear powerstation is remembered as one of the darkest moments of Ukrainian history, ...

The HBO mini-series "Chernobyl" takes a dramatic look back at the 1986 nuclear disaster. At the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, then a part of the Soviet Union, ...

Chernobyl is considered the world's worst nuclear-power-plant accident because of its widespread release of radioactive contaminants.; More than three decades later, the disaster continues to have ...

“Chernobyl” review: HBO has turned the 1986 Soviet nuclear disaster into a bleak but riveting miniseries starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgard and Emily Watson.

Chernobyl nuclear disaster altered the genetics of the dogs left behind, scientists say. Scientists shared a look into how radiation exposure affects generations.