How a Cheap Drone Punctured Chernobyl’s 40,000-Ton Shield
The steel shell that encloses the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster was built to endure for a century. But war was a ...
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Inside the Russian Occupation of the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy, W.W. Norton & Company, 240 pages, $29.99 The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic ...
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12 ways HBO changed the true story of Chernobyl 1986 nuclear 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 ...
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A drone damaged the outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant. Radiation levels are normal
particularly in a country where many vividly remember living through the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, which killed at least 30 people and spewed radioactive fallout over much of the Northern Hemisphere.
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U.S.S.R., 1986
This is a combined SPOT-Eosat image of Chernobyl; the red dot is a thermal signature revealing the extreme heat of the reactor meltdown.
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About 1.7 million people affected by Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Russia — ministry
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 ...
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Chernobyl radiation shield hit by Russian drone, Ukraine says
A catastrophic explosion at Chernobyl in 1986 sent a plume of radioactive material into the air, triggering a public health emergency across Europe. While the immediate disaster was mitigated and ...