Inside one of the most radioactive reactors in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant ... lying within a 19-mile exclusion zone. The blast unleashed a mushroom of smoke, with thousands of potential ...

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 ...

KIEV, April 27. /TASS/. Fires in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant engulfed an area of around 20,000 hectares, Sergei Kalashnik, chief of Ukraine’s state agency for the ...

The Chernobyl blast rocketed red-hot, highly irradiated graphite and dust, making parts of the cordoned-off “exclusion zone” ...

But war was a scenario its engineers never envisioned. A Ukrainian air defense unit illuminating a hole in the steel shield at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant last month. The fire started by the ...

KIEV, July 10. /TASS/. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky signed a decree on Wednesday lifting a number of previous bans on visiting the Chernobyl exclusion zone around the site of the 1986 ...

“Russian occupation forces are trying to seize the” Chernobyl nuclear power plant, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Twitter post. “Our defenders are giving their lives so ...

Khomyuk warns Legasov about the possibility of a steam explosion following the initial blast, effectively thwarting a second nuclear disaster. But her quest to uncover the facts of Chernobyl may ...

The Chernobyl blast rocketed red-hot, highly irradiated graphite and dust, making parts of the cordoned-off “exclusion zone” around the shutdown plant unfit for human habitation for tens of ...