On April 26, 1986, during a poorly managed safety test and partly due to inherent defects in the plant, reactor number 4 at ...
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 ...
On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, UK nuclear experts have modelled the potential fallout of a similar-scale accident at one of Britain’s reactors. While such an event is deemed highly ...
Exactly 40 years ago, the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was destroyed in the worst nuclear disaster the world has ever seen.