This is a combined SPOT-Eosat image of Chernobyl; the red dot is a thermal signature revealing the extreme heat of the reactor meltdown.

Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: HBO's new miniseries, "Chernobyl," recounts the 1986 nuclear disaster in Ukraine. It's a dramatization, so while many events depicted in the show ...

The event of what took place at a nuclear power station on the edge of the Baltic Sea were hidden for some 14 years. They could well have remained hidden forever had communism in East Germany not ...

But if the fuel rods become fully molten, then you’ve got a meltdown on your hands. The largest formation of corium in existence occurred during the Chernobyl disaster. In fact, so much corium ...

The meltdown at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant occurred in the small hours of April 26, 1986 MOSCOW, April 26. /TASS/. More than 1.7 million people, living in Russia ...

But Chernobyl was on a whole other scale of disaster, for the denial of the risks, the sheer amount of radiation released, damage to the surrounding environment and how authorities responded.

Following the 1986 Chernobyl meltdown - the world's worst nuclear accident - authorities cordoned off the most contaminated areas around the Ukrainian power plant. That restricted land ...