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, ...

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In April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster unfolded in what was then the Soviet Union. What began as a late-night safety test at Reactor No. 4 quickly turned into the ...

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there’s a revival around the world, a trend that ...

SLAVUTYCH, Ukraine — People streamed into the central square of Slavutych in the early hours of Sunday, placing candles on a large radiation hazard symbol laid out on the ground as a midnight ...

Forty years ago, in April 1986, there was an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was the worst nuclear accident in history. Then... 40 years after families survived the Chernobyl ...

Think of Chernobyl and you think of the city of Pripyat, but what happened to the other towns and villages in the exclusion ...