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Chernobyl 40 years later: How the disaster changed nuclear safety worldwide

The Chernobyl disaster remains the world’s worst nuclear accident, displacing hundreds of thousands and reshaping global ...

Eerie photos of abandoned Chernobyl plant show lights still glowing on nuclear control panel: ‘Incredibly sad’

It’s a blast from the past. Eerie photos of the infamous nuclear Chernobyl site show the abandoned Ukrainian power plant ...

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 ...

Inside Chernobyl’s shadow community: what a nuclear disaster looks like 40 years on

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and ...

'At Chernobyl, everything seemed to be cracking and melting': A former Ukrainian 'liquidator' recounts the disaster 40 years later

Halyna Kharshenko went to work at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 26, 1986, unaware of the scale and severity of ...

Chernobyl, 40 years later: Ukrainians thought they had reduced the risks. Then Russia invaded

The two explosions at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant came decades apart.

'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 ...

40 Years After the Meltdown, War Layers Another Disaster on Chernobyl

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable ...
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Chernobyl disaster’s legacy resonates four decades later

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the ...