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17 fascinating facts about Chernobyl (40 years after the worst nuclear disaster in history)

Forty years after Chernobyl changed history forever, discover 17 fascinating and heartbreaking facts about the world’s worst ...
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40 Years after Chernobyl: What caused the disaster — and how it changed nuclear energy

In this 1986 photo, a Chernobyl nuclear power plant worker holding a dosimeter to measure radiation level is seen against the background of a sarcophagus under construction over the 4th destroyed ...
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Lithuania Will Be The First Country In The World To Decommission A Reactor Of The Same Type As The One That Exploded In Chernobyl

Lithuania is preparing to dismantle the core assemblies of the RBMK reactors at the former Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant—the ...
Phys.org

Forty years on from the disaster, why there are foxes, bears and bison again around Chernobyl

In the novel "When There Are Wolves Again" by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...
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Inside Chernobyl's shadow community, 40 years after disaster

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...
Los Angeles Times

Chernobyl, 40 years later: Ukrainians thought they had reduced the risks. Then Russia invaded

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. As Ukrainians mark the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, last year’s Russian drone attack ...
Phys.org

Chernobyl's wildlife: The real story isn't the presence of radiation, it's the absence of humans

"Dogs at Chernobyl are now genetically distinct … thanks to years of exposure to ionizing radiation, study finds." But the underlying science didn't actually show any genetic differences were caused ...