Historical Stroll: Episode 119 - The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: Invisible Radiation That Shook the World

April 26, 1986. An explosion and fire occurred at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian Soviet ...

After Chernobyl, scientists planted sunflowers to absorb radioactive isotopes

After the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters, scientists explored using sunflowers for radioactive cleanup. Sunflowers ...
Kreosan English on MSN

A metal detector leads to an unexpected treasure in a Chernobyl house part 2

We explored the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone with metal detectors, using a heavy-duty hydraulic jack to investigate building ...

Memories of Chernobyl. Yet, I remember the rain that day. — The girl on the Sakurabashi Bridge over the Sai River in 1986 who said, 'Today's rain is dangerous.'

Memories of ChernobylApril 26, 1986.A major accident occurred at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the former Soviet Union, in what is now Ukraine.I was six years old at the time.I vaguely remember ...
Yahoo

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 power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...
Newsweek

Chernobyl Bird Study May Help Us in a ‘More Nuclear Future’

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. What has happened to the wildlife in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone? The ...
NPR

Ukraine still fears another Chernobyl-size disaster at Europe's largest nuclear plant

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine — Sophia Arkadiyivna remembers when the Soviet Union built the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1977, just 20 miles from the village where she served as mayor. After years of atomic ...
Voice of America

30 Years After Blast, Desolation and Activity at Chernobyl

Thirty years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl power plant is surrounded by both desolation and clangorous activity, the sense of a ruined past and a difficult future. The plant ...
Time

Chernobyl Experts Say Russia Could Set Off a Nuclear Disaster

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Forbes

Chernobyl’s Reactor Meltdown Formed Earth’s Most Dangerous Lava

On the morning of Saturday, 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 of the Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin Atomic Power Station near the town of Chernobyl in modern Ukraine experienced a "minor accident." As the cooling ...

Underground: Kiev has transferred foreign mercenaries to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant area

EADaily, September 28th, 2026. The military command of the Kiev regime sent foreign mercenaries with real combat experience ...
Mining Weekly

Chernobyl's map is shrinking. The Rand's is not

Hiroshima's residual radiation fell a millionfold in a week, and Chernobyl's contaminated zone has contracted for thirty years. The uranium in Gauteng's mine dumps does neither — and a licence conditi ...