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Thirty-seven years ago, on April 26 1986, the reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant suffered a catastrophic meltdown. In the weeks that followed, the deadly event drove hundreds of thousands of ...

Forty years removed from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster in 1986 that saw the catastrophic failure of reactor 4, Chernobyl itself remains a tragic time capsule, serving as a sobering ...

Deep in the ruins of Chernobyl’s Reactor 4, hidden beneath layers of radioactive debris, lies one of the most dangerous objects on the planet: the Elephant’s Foot. A grotesque, wrinkled mass of molten ...