Nuclear Reactor Explosion

A look back at world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster

A look back at the world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union.

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Science history: Chernobyl nuclear power plant melts down, bringing the world to the brink of disaster — April 26, 1986

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More countries are turning to nuclear power 40 years after the Chernobyl disaster

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The eerie abandoned vehicles in Chernobyl's 'dead zone'

A huge armada of vehicles were used to clean-up the radioactive aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster 40 years ago.

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Inside Chornobyl: 40 years after disaster, nuclear site still at risk in Russia’s war

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Ukrainians thought they had reduced the risks at Chernobyl. Then Russia invaded

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Chernobyl’s exclusion zone is a beacon of biodiversity – but it faces new threats from Russia’s invasion

Four decades after the accident, Chernobyl has become one of Europe’s largest nature reserves.

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

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Chernobyl, 40 years since disaster: five things to know

Worst ever nuclear disaster Chernobyl caused by pressing one wrong button

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain of critical errors — and its fallout was unprecedented.

BBC visits Chernobyl ghost city 40 years after world's worst nuclear accident

The BBC's Jessica Parker visits Pripyat, which was abandoned in 1986 after an explosion at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

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

Photos of the infamous nuclear Chernobyl site show the abandoned power plant frozen in time — with a control panel still lit up ahead of the 40th anniversary of the unprecedented disaster.

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Ukraine marks 40th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster under cloud of war

Kyiv says Moscow has repeatedly sent missiles and drones on a flight path near the plant. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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Putin’s actions bringing us closer to nuclear disaster, say experts

Putin could cause the next Chernobyl through reckless strikes on nuclear plants, experts warn - IN DEPTH: Four decades ago, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in the worst nuclear accident the world has ever seen.

The True Story of the First Public Nuclear Disaster

On October 10th, 1957, a nuclear reactor fire broke out at Windscale in the UK becoming the first nuclear disaster to directly impact the public. Long before Fukushima Daiichi nuclear