Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. At 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, following a ...

On April 26, 1986 a nuclear reactor exploded in the Soviet Union. You might already know this, either because you’re a history buff or just a fan of HBO’s hit miniseries Chernobyl, which ended with ...

Jordan Dunbar travels to Chernobyl to explore events that caused the world's worst nuclear disaster and to understand what we can learn from them.

On April 26, 1986, the world's worst nuclear disaster befell the Chernobyl, Ukraine Power Plant. Unlike the 2011 Fukushima, Japan nuclear crisis, the Chernobyl ...

Forty years after the disaster, wolves, lynx and wild horses thrive at sevenfold density in Chernobyl, though abundance isn't ...

A children's seesaw stands among former apartment buildings in Pripyat, Ukraine. Pripyat, built in the 1970s to house the workers and families of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, now stands ...

Estudios biológicos en el área de la tragedia nuclear detallan cómo las especies logran sobrevivir, reproducirse y adaptarse ...

Reporting from Chernobyl, Ukraine — Seated in a jeep and clutching a screeching Geiger counter, Lt. Col. Viktor Chershnev led a convoy of 30 military trucks through the center of sleeping Kiev. The ...

For more than three decades, very little has disturbed the Chernobyl exclusion zone: 2,600 square kilometres of contaminated land and the most visible legacy of the worst nuclear accident in human ...

Photographer Philip Grossman has documented the abandoned landscape of Chernobyl's "exclusion zone" for over a decade. Here's what he found. If you need a refresher on what happened at Chernobyl, here ...

It was the fall of 1986, some six months after the catastrophic Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant explosion, and a group of soldiers suited up to enter the radiation-riddled site. Their task: Clean ...

Ukrainian Igor Kostin, who took the first pictures of Chernobyl nuclear plant after it exploded in 1986, has died in a car accident in Kiev Igor Kostin, a Ukrainian photographer who took one of the ...