In 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in then Soviet-controlled Ukraine exploded, sending a radioactive plume across Europe. The effects were devastating and the disaster's ...
THE nuclear catastrophe in Chernobyl claimed 31 lives as well as ... The reactor's roof was blown off and a plume of radioactive material was blasted into the atmosphere. As air was sucked into ...
The explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near Pripyat, Ukraine on April 26, 1986 remains the worst nuclear disaster in human history. It left a 30-kilometer ...