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Daniel Hryhorczuk: Forty years after Chernobyl, war threatens a new nuclear disaster in Ukraine
Since Russia began occupying the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, there have been several near-miss nuclear safety situations.
On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...
IMMEDIATELY after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, hundreds of thousands of “liquidators” were sent in to clear up after the catastrophic explosion. They charged straight into the ...
The example that Chernobyl has provided of how the landscape, water dynamics and human behaviour affect radiation risk will be important when dealing with future disasters. Scientists never stop ...
April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the effects of the explosion here.
In the novel When There Are Wolves Again by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...
"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." The devastation caused by the 1986 Ukraine Nuclear disaster was wide-ranging and long-lasting. In the ...
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Surviving in a poisoned land: Chernobyl's wildlife is different, but not in the ways you might think
It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant.
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