Bumper cars sit idle at an overgrown amusement park in Pripyat, Ukraine, a town left abandoned following the nearby 1986Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Tuesday, April 21, 2026 ... .
Chernobyl, Ukraine. Ukraine on Sunday marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant -- the worst civilian nuclear disaster in history.It comes fo ....
) In the early hours of 26 April 1986, what should have been a routine test at Chernobyl nuclear power plant, quickly escalated into the world's biggest ...
Forty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Nobel Prize–winning author Svetlana Alexievich says Belarus is still a "laboratory" in which the long-term effects of the massive radiation leak continue to play out.
In its former life, the Claw of Chernobyl was most likely used to shift mining debris, but when disaster struck on April 26, 1986, it was repurposed for something far more serious. .