On April 26, 1986 — 40 years ago today — a reactor at a Soviet nuclear power station 80 miles from Kiev — now Kyiv, Ukraine — exploded. Much of the radioactive core was vaporized, thrown into the ...
In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...