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In the abandoned city of Pripyat. Technically speaking I suspect I wasn't meant to be in this particular spot, having got separated from the group for a short while, but hey. I passed the radioactivity test on the way out of the exclusion zone, so there.

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear meltdown that occurred on April 26, 1986, in the No. 4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, in what was part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. During a late night safety test which simulated a station power-failure […]

(Photos by Alex Kladoff) Yan is part of Chernobyl Children International's Community Care program. The program gives families he support they need to...

April 26 is the day the world commemorates the worst-ever nuclear disaster. Twenty-eight years after the Chernobyl power plant blew up, RT remembers the tragedy and takes a look at the changes that time has wrought to the fallout zone.

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In the immediate aftermath of the explosion on 26 April, 1986, few were prepared to endure the massive radiation levels and document the disaster, but Russian photographer Igor Kostin did. Here is a selection of his finest images

En Ucrania, a unos 100 kilómetros al norte de Kiev el 26 de abril de 1986 a la 1:23 hs. de (Moscú) el reactor número 4 de la central nuclear de Chernobyl sufre el mayor accidente nuclear conocido e…

this child was born with severe birth defects many years after the Chernobyl accident ; the mother just happened to live a little too close to the zone

The Soviet government made the following announcement two days after the accident. "There has been an accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. One of the nuclear reactors was damaged. The effects of the accident are being remedied. Assistance has been provided for any affected people. An investigative commission has been set up." Below is a link to Russian film maker Vladimir Shevchenko's final film. Notice how the troops were not informed of the dangers. Many didn't even wear their…

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Robots couldn't handle the intense radiation at Chernobyl, so the dangerous nuclear cleanup job fell to the "liquidators" — a corps of soldiers, firefighters, miners, and volunteers.

At first glance, it’s hard to know what’s happening in this picture. A giant mushroom seems to have sprouted in a factory floor, where ghostly men in...

The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear meltdown that occurred on April 26, 1986, in the No. 4 light water graphite moderated reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, in what was part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union. During a late night safety test which simulated a station power-failure […]

Chernobyl Deformities: The Effects of the Nuclear Disaster There were many health effects that were short term and long term after the disaster. This applies to both animals and humans that suffered...