Chernobyl’s ghostly Red Forest, one of the most radioactive sites on the planet, has been mapped by specially-equipped drones to measure the extent of its contamination. Researchers from the UK ...

Map of fallout. As Russian troops ... By the time of the accident in 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant four of the six planned nuclear reactors had been completed and brought online.

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Europe exploded on April 26, 1986, threatening the whole of Europe. The nuclear disaster was triggered by a failed safety test and killed at least 30 ...

A wildfire burning in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, as imaged on April 5, 2020, by the NOAA-NASA Suomi NPP satellite. (Image credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information ...

1. Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Location: Pripyat, Ukraine. In April 1986, one of the worst nuclear accidents in history ...

The giant structure constructed around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant to contain the radioactive material released in 1986 in one of history's worst nuclear disasters is crumbling. Soon, it ...

What was supposed to be a standard safety test, ended up with the explosion of reactor number 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukraine, in the Soviet Union.

It’s April 2019 and a group of us from the University of Bristol, UK, are being driven though the exclusion zone surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) in a minibus laden with all ...

Since the explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986, ... The map was not officially redrawn today, but, crucially, most people in the room agreed there was a need for change. BBC.

In the clear, calm, early hours of May 15, 2003, three miles west of the hulking ruins of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Vasyl Yoschenko was bustling around a stand of Scotch pines planted 30 ...

On April 26, 1986, disaster struck reactor number four at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. At first, Soviet officials attempted to hide the cataclysmic events unfolding in Ukraine, but when ...

Deep in the radiated Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in the Ukraine stands the abandoned Duga radar, a mysterious piece of Soviet Cold War technology also known as the “Russian Woodpecker.” ...