Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia
The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, ... Reactor No. 3 is …
Chernobyl disaster | Causes, Effects, Deaths, Videos, Location,
3 days ago · Chernobyl disaster, accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union in 1986, the worst disaster in nuclear power generation history. Between 2 and 50 …
NASA Sees Fires Near Chernobyl Break Out Again - NASA
On April 17, 2020, NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of new fires breaking out near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. On April 14, the fires that had broken out at the …
Chernobyl: The world's worst nuclear disaster - Live Science
Apr 18, 2023 · In the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine (formerly part of the Soviet Union) exploded, creating what many consider the worst …
Effects of the Chernobyl disaster - Wikipedia
203 people were hospitalized, of whom 31 died. 28 of them died from acute radiation exposure. Most of these were fire and rescue workers trying to bring the disaster under control, who were …
Chernobyl: Disaster, Response & Fallout - HISTORY
Apr 24, 2018 · Considered history’s worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986 killed 31 people directly, many due to radiation poisoning during the cleanup. The area …
Chernobyl Disaster: Photos From 1986 - The Atlantic
Jun 3, 2019 · Thirty-three years ago, on April 26, 1986, a series of explosions destroyed Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4, and several hundred staff and firefighters tackled a blaze that …
At Chernobyl, Radioactive Danger Lurks in the Trees
Jun 24, 2013 · For 26 years forests around Chernobyl have been absorbing radioactive elements, but a fire would send them skyward again--a concern as summers grow longer, hotter and drier.
Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment - BBC
Two people in the plant were killed and, as air fuelled a fire that burned for 10 days, a cloud of radioactive smoke and dust was carried on the wind around Europe.
ESA - Mapping Chernobyl fires from space - European Space …
Apr 16, 2020 · With an outbreak of wildfires recently threatening the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine, the Copernicus Emergency Mapping Service has been activated …