'I thought it was a nuclear bomb': Inside the night Chernobyl exploded

Concrete crumbling like sand, their faces burning red from the radiation. Sky News speaks to Chernobyl workers who did ...
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Chernobyl at 40: the lies, the loss and why we can’t let go

Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine ...

Chernobyl Wasn't a Nuclear Disaster—It Was a Communist Disaster

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 ...

Darker frogs, resilient wolves, and radiation-eating fungi: The surprising wildlife thriving in the Chernobyl exclusion zone

Decades after the Chernobyl disaster, the exclusion zone is transforming from a wasteland into a thriving wildlife sanctuary. The absence of human activity has allowed wolves, bears, bison, and rare ...

Chernobyl could have destroyed all of Europe. How this 3-man 'suicide squad' prevented that

(April 26), a safety test at the Chernobyl Power Plant in Ukraine set off two explosions, triggering the world’s biggest ...