EDITOR'S NOTE: In the weeks after the April 26, 1986, explosion and fire at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, it was difficult to get any information about the scope of the disaster, aside from terse ...
On 26 April 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in Ukraine exploded ...
Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.
FILE – Tatyana Ignatenko, the mother of firefighter Vasily Ignatenko, grieves near his grave at Mitinskoye Cemetery in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, April 26, 2006, the 20th anniversary of the ...