Chernobyl and Zaporizhzhia power cuts: nervous wait as Ukraine nuclear power plants could start leaking radiation: New Safe Confinement structure at Chernobyl OLEG PETRASYUK/EPA-EFE The catastrophic disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 was caused by an explosion at the Reactor 4 Unit. This expelled a sizeable quantity of radioactive material into the …
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Chernobyl: bumblebees still at risk from radiation nearly 35 years on: Serhii Brovko/Shutterstock In the early hours of April 26 1986, reactor four of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine exploded, causing the largest nuclear disaster in history. More than 350,000 people were evacuated, and a 4,700km² exclusion zone was formed in Ukraine and …
What Chernobyl can teach us about the invisible threat of coronavirus: Chernobyl and COVID-19: when the threat is in the air you breathe. Ondrej Bucek/Shutterstock As we slowly emerge from government-imposed lockdowns, we find ourselves forced to renegotiate some of the spaces that used to be the most familiar to us. Shops, community centres and …