Once classified files from East Germany reveal the extent of Soviet actions to hide the true extent of catastrophe.
These 20 pictures capture the aftermath of the infamous 1986 Chernobyl incident—effects that are, in some cases, still felt ...
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PHOTO ESSAY: AP photographer chronicles Chernobyl’s painful legacy of silence, sacrifice and danger
Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when 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 ...
The nuclear incident at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe and led to political changes that played a role in the ...
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Chernobyl’s wildlife: the real story isn’t the presence of radiation – it’s the absence of humans
They present a compelling story of radiation, mutation and survival against the odds. But the underlying science didn’t ...
The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will ...
Russia has been launching drones and missiles on a flight path near the disused Chernobyl nuclear plant during attacks on ...
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster devastated what is now Ukraine in 1986. Now, after three decades, the Elephant's Foot is still ...
IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the ...
RUSSIAN missiles flying near to the Chernobyl nuclear plant are risking a “major accident”, Ukraine has said. A top state ...
In the initial aftermath of the nuclear power plant explosion, authorities told the bride's mother "not to panic" and that ...
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