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In 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster led to the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in human history. It was a disaster for all forms of life, but how that accident is ...
The Zaporizhzhia plant has a safer, more modern design than Chornobyl, known in Russian as Chernobyl, and there’s not the same danger of a large-scale meltdown, experts say. But that doesn’t reduce ...
To this day, the area around the plant, known in Russian as Chernobyl, is off-limits except to the technical staff needed to keep it safe. (AP Photo/Wladyslaw Musiienko) The twin dangers of bombs and ...