The control panel of reactor unit 4 inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone and nuclear power plant in 2006. Reactor unit 4 was the one that blew up on April 26, 1986. Patrick Landmann/Getty Images April 26, 1986, 1:23:04 a.m.: The test officially begins, and an unexpected power surge...
The estimated 200 tonnes of radioactive nuclear fuel inside reactor 4 are now shielded by the New Safe Confinement. However, parts of the sarcophagus are becoming unstable and will have to be removed at some point. Once this is done, work will come closer to the reactor’s interior. The ...
Inside Chernobyl Today. the No. 4 Reactor at the Soviet Union's Chernobyl Power Station Exploded April 26, 1986. Last Month, Rushworth M. Kidder Had a Highly Unusual `Back Door' Tour of the Site, Accompanied by Senior Soviet Engineers Who Were There during the Accident. This Is the ...
Cashing in on ChernobylReports that a Moscow-based CBS-TV news crew recently went to the Ukraine to film a story on the return of villagers to the site of the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown and were told it would cost them...
The control panel of reactor unit 4 inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone and nuclear power plant in 2006. Reactor unit 4 was the one that blew up on April 26, 1986. Patrick Landmann/Getty Images Chernobyl Exclusion Zone Apart from the ever-unfolding human toll from the disaster, the Chernobyl...
The vast and empty Chernobyl Exclusion Zone around the site of the world's worst nuclear accident is a baleful monument to human mistakes. Yet 35 years after a power plant reactor exploded, Ukrainians also look to it for ...
S.W.A.N.: Chernobyl Unexplored is a science fiction FPS puzzle horror game, which takes place a few months after the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant disaster. Take part in the research expedition and be one of the first people to get inside the S.W.A.N. Institute since the reactor failure. Yo...
Photo of the New Safe Confinement at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant which covers the number 4 reactor unit, on the 36th anniversary of the world's worst nuclear disaster. (SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images) CHERNOBYL, Ukraine - Here in the dirt of one of the world’s most radioactive...
The 1986 Chernobyl accident resulted in one of the highest unintentional releases of radioactivity in history. The graphite moderator of reactor 4 was exposed to air and ignited, shooting plumes of radioactive fallout across what is now Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, and Europe. While few people live...
Take part in the research expedition and be one of the first people to get inside the S.W.A.N. Institute since the reactor failure. You'll discover the place kept secret by ZSRR authorities, omitted during the evacuation after the Chernobyl disaster. Experience things that go far beyond ...