Since 1986, the radioactive site has remained frozen in time, and off limits to the public, after a reactor at the plant exploded. The resulting fallout spurred a crisis for the people of the nearby city of Pripyat, Ukraine — and for those living miles and miles away. Today, a protec...
The Chernobyl meltdown and explosion is by far the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever seen. If you’re over 30, you’ve heard of the famous soviet disaster of Chernobyl. If you haven’t, here is a recap. On April 26th, 1986 about about 1:23 am, reactor #4 overheated and ex...
Chernobyl , Ukr.Chornobyl,abandoned city, N Ukraine, near the Belarus border, on the Pripyat River. Ten miles (16 km) to the north, in the town of Pripyat, is the Chernobyl nuclear power station, site of the worst nuclear reactor disaster in history. On Apr. 25, 1986, during an unaut...
The outer shell that was hit is a protective cover built in 2016 over a heavy concrete containment structure. The inner layer was placed on the plant’s fourth reactor soon after the 1986 disaster, which was one of the worst accidents in nuclear history. The containment shells seek to preven...
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 ...
Early in the morning of 27 April, about 25 hours after the explosion in the Chernobyl no. 4 nuclear reactor, detectable radioactivity reached southeast Sweden (Erlandsson, Asking & Swietlicki, 1987). However, the main part of the radioactive cloud arrived 25 hours later, causing high ...
Cross section of the sarcophagus over reactor 4 Reactor 4 following the explosion The enormity of the challenge ahead is clear.
A 1986 file photo of an aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine showing damage from an explosion and fire in reactor four on April 26, 1986, that sent large amounts of radioactive material into the atmosphere. Associated Press CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — Telling the...
Chernobyl dogs living outside the New Safe Confinement Structure, which was built to contain radioactivity from the explosion of reactor four. Tim Mousseau via NHGRI Although exposure to ionizing radiation is known to elevate genetic mutation rates across various plant and animal species, ...
Unit 4 at Chernobyl – near Ukraine’s border with Belarus – exploded in 1986, sparking a radioactive disaster. The reactor was later encased in a concrete and steel sarcophagus. The sarcophagus was the work of an international coalition and took decades to build. It was finally finished in...