On April 26, 1986, during a poorly managed safety test and partly due to inherent defects in the plant, reactor number 4 at ...
The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...
On April 26, 1986, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine exploded during a botched safety test, ...
The crew at the nuclear power plant wanted to test the reactor's behavior during a power failure, triggering the most serious ...
Photographs from the first days of the Chernobyl disaster and of the aftermath years later show the response, the evacuation ...
Their mission was to clean up the worst nuclear accident in history. Following the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the ...