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.
On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...
The Chernobyl disaster began in the early hours of April 26, 1986, when a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded during a safety test. The explosion and subsequent fire sent a plume of ...
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Polish meteorologists have recalled their response to the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown 40 years ago, saying the accident in then-Soviet Ukraine caused a spike in radioactivity over Poland but was ...