Photos show a gaping hole punched in the roof of the 40,000-ton outer shell of the plant, which was placed on its fourth reactor after the Chernobyl disaster. Nuclear map predicts where 75% would ...

I first heard of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor breakdown on the morning of April 26, when the Soviet Ministry of Medium Machine Building, responsible for nuclear reactors, reported it to the Kremlin.

Dad made friend dig own grave and kill himself after raping 6-year-old daughter Nuclear map predicts where ... an immense explosion. The Chernobyl catastrophe saw reactor number four at the ...

During what should have been a routine safety test in the early hours of that Saturday morning, reactor four at the Chernobyl plant exploded. The nuclear fallout from the blast was around a ...

In the aftermath of the nuclear accident ... A view of the town of Pripyat and the Chernobyl reactor (Getty) Researchers assessed around 100 hectares of land in the Zhytomyr region for ...

The nuclear disaster at Chernobyl has produced the biggest group of cancers ever from a single incident, according to UK and US scientists. Almost 2,000 cases of thyroid cancer have resulted from the ...

On April 26, 1986, Reactor No 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, located in what is now Ukraine, exploded during a late-night safety test gone wrong. The blast released radioactive material ...

the reactor unit, that you can't work above it," says Shaun Burnie, a nuclear expert with Greenpeace. Burnie was part of a Greenpeace team invited to Chernobyl to inspect the damage shortly after ...