The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the No. 4 nuclear reactor in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR. It is considered the worst nuclear disaster in history and is one of only two nuclear energy disasters rated at seven—the maximum severity—on the International Nuclear Event Scale, the other being the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan.
Donald Trump is “in severe mental decline” and “won’t make it” to the next election, a former top aide has claimed. Anthony Scaramucci, who was White House communications director for just 11.. WorldNews - Published
In 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant' Reactor 4 exploded and melted down. It turned Chernobyl and the neighboring town into the epicenter of a 1,000-square-mile exclusion zone. Now, Gizmodo..
Pubs, galleries, walks – and now a bona fide brush-with-disaster story have put Peak District community on must-see lists of day-trippers Independent - Published
More than three decades after he flew his helicopter above the radioactive volcano that was Chernobyl's nuclear reactor number four, the site of the world's worst nuclear accident, Mykola Volkozub.. Reuters - Published
"Hobbs & Shaw" offers the ultimate villains' lair beneath the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Here's how filmmakers shot the foreboding exteriors.
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The success of a U.S. television series on the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster has made its filming locations in Lithuania an off-beat tourist attraction, but has also renewed the anger and.. Reuters - Published
(CNN)Radiation levels across parts of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean, where the United States tested nuclear bombs during the Cold War, are higher than areas contaminated by the Chernobyl.. WorldNews - Published
"Chernobyl is a unique place on the planet where nature has been reborn after a huge man-made disaster," Ukraine's president said."
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A professor of molecular pathology, who has studied the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear accident for 27 years, confronts the "scaremongering". The Age - Published
Russian President Vladimir Putin disclosed on Thursday for the first time that a secret military submarine hit by a fatal fire three days ago was nuclear-powered, prompting Russia’s defense minister.. WorldNews - Published
The death toll may be contentious, but the world's worst nuclear accident will continue to poison humans for hundreds if not thousands of years. The Age - Published
The HBO series shows we’re not going to have another Chernobyl. By far the biggest threat to human safety in power production is from climate change.
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