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Jan 17, 2023 · On April 26, 1986, a meltdown of a reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant caused the world's worst nuclear disaster. The meltdown caused two devastating explosions, which saw radioactive...
Mar 9, 2022 · World Mar 9, 2022 5:08 PM EDT. When fighting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in power cuts to the critical cooling system at the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant, some feared that...
May 20, 2019 · Emergency workers showed enormous courage in the immediate aftermath of the accident. Thirty-one people died as an immediate result of the explosion or acute radiation sickness. Hundreds of thousands of people worked to decontaminate the area over the following months and years.
Feb 25, 2022 · A radiation spike has been recorded near Chernobyl's nuclear power plant which has been seized by Russian forces, monitoring data shows. Invading Russian troops took control of the plant - the...
Jan 23, 2020 · What is Chernobyl like today? On April 26, 1986, a safety test gone wrong led to an explosion in reactor #4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukraine. (At the time, Pripyat was...
Apr 28, 2022 · Radiation levels near the Chernobyl plant are within safe limits, the nuclear agency chief says. The finding came after readings were taken this week at the site, which Russian forces had...
5 days ago · Chernobyl disaster, accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union in 1986, the worst disaster in nuclear power generation history. Between 2 and 50 people were killed in the initial explosions, and dozens more contracted serious radiation sickness, some of whom later died.
The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, near the Belarus border in the Soviet Union. [1]
Apr 26, 2021 · Perhaps 10 percent of them are still alive today. Thirty-one people died as a direct result of the accident, according the official Soviet death toll.
Feb 25, 2022 · A radiation spike has been recorded near Chernobyl's nuclear power plant which has been seized by Russian forces, monitoring data shows. Invading Russian troops took control of the plant - the...
