Nuclear Power Disasters

A look back at world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster

A look back at the world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster

Sunday, April 26, marks the 40th anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union.

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Chornobyl: 40 years on from the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever seen

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More countries are turning to nuclear power 40 years after the Chernobyl disaster

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Inside Chernobyl’s shadow community: what a nuclear disaster looks like 40 years on

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation.

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Forty years after nuclear disaster, Ukraine's Chornobyl plant is haunted by war

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The eerie abandoned vehicles in Chernobyl's 'dead zone'

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Putin’s actions bringing us closer to nuclear disaster, say experts

Putin could cause the next Chernobyl through reckless strikes on nuclear plants, experts warn - IN DEPTH: Four decades ago, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded in the worst nuclear accident the world has ever seen.

Worst ever nuclear disaster Chernobyl caused by pressing one wrong button

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain of critical errors — and its fallout was unprecedented.