Today the abandoned city of Pripyat, Ukraine sits in ruin after its 50,000 residents were evacuated a day after an explosion at the nearby Chernobyl power plant.
A timeline of events surrounding the explosion at Chernobyl's nuclear reactor 4 and the subsequent disaster.
A timeline of events surrounding the explosion at Chernobyl's nuclear reactor 4 and the subsequent disaster.
The Emmy-winning HBO series follows the aftermath of the nuclear disaster.
Energy production is about to resume at the site of the worst nuclear accident in history.
Pripyat, Ucraina. Prima che il 26 aprile 1986 l’esplosione della centrale nucleare di Chernobyl, poco distante, costringesse tutti quanti a scappare (il giorno dopo, in sole tre ore) in questa cittadina vivevano 50 mila persone. Allora l’annuncio del comune parlava di un’evacuazione «temporanea». Ma nessuno invece è mai tornato. Case, ospedali, scuole, strade: tutto è rimasto immobile da allora. La vegetazione che ingoia tutto rivela però come in realtà siano passati quasi 30 anni. Nella foto la piazza della città come era e come è adesso (Getty)
© Aym96/Wikimedia In all my life, it never occurred to me that I would have to start this part o...
In the immediate aftermath of the explosion on 26 April, 1986, few were prepared to endure the massive radiation levels and document the disaster, but Russian photographer Igor Kostin did. Here is a selection of his finest images
In the late hours of April 25, 1986, a catastrophe began to take shape at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. Technicians at the facility attempted
Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov (Russian March 3, 1931 December 13, 1995) was vice chiefengineer of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, and the supervisor of the fatal experiment which resulted in the Chernobyl disaster. Dyatlov was born in 1931 in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
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The black and white shots, taken shortly after the 1986 Ukraine tragedy, revealed the truth behind the tragedy that Soviet authorities were trying to hush up.
Questa è la città abbandonata di Pripyat, in Ucraina. Ci sono pochissime persone che non hanno mai sentito parlare di questo posto. Pripyat un tempo
From the 25-year-old with his finger on the wrong button to the grizzled Communist Party apparatchik who thought evacuation was for sissies
Photos from the most hazardous part of the infamous Reactor No. 4.
The black and white shots, taken shortly after the 1986 Ukraine tragedy, revealed the truth behind the tragedy that Soviet authorities were trying to hush up.
"Ho fotografato l'orologio appeso al muro. Era fermo all'1:23—il momento in cui il reattore è esploso e il tempo a Chernobyl si è fermato."
The Akademik Lomonosov, a barge containing two nuclear reactors, is pictured in Murmansk during its departure for Pevek, Chukotka Autonomous Area, on Russia's Arctic coast where it will function as a nuclear power station. On Friday, an unusual kind of vessel set sail from the Arctic city of Murmansk, Russia, for a destination in the country’s far east––a floating nuclear power plant equipped with two reactors. The vessel, dubbed the Akademik Lomonosov, is set to travel about 2,900 miles to the
A quarter century after the meltdown, meet the families who chose to stay.
