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The hidden dangers waiting inside Chernobyl’s exclusion zone

Nearly four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, Chernobyl remains one of the most mysterious places on Earth.
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Lithuania Will Be The First Country In The World To Decommission A Reactor Of The Same Type As The One That Exploded In Chernobyl

Lithuania is preparing to dismantle the core assemblies of the RBMK reactors at the former Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant—the ...
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Bears now roam the Chernobyl dead zone - and the mutations are hard to ignore

After the Chernobyl reactor exploded in 1986, deadly radiation spread through the surrounding forests, killing animals, ...

The forgotten towns of the Chernobyl exclusion zone

Think of Chernobyl and you think of the city of Pripyat, but what happened to the other towns and villages in the exclusion ...
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40 Years After The Disaster, Chernobyl's Nuclear Plant Is A Tragic Time Capsule

As we reach the 40-year milestone of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster, few things have captured the public's angst and imagination quite like Chernobyl. In the intervening years, Chernobyl has ...
The Economist

Scientists are still learning from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

As a blue coach pulls up outside Chernobyl nuclear-power plant, friendly stray dogs approach it. It has passed through multiple Ukrainian military checkpoints—necessary since Russian troops briefly ...

Ukraine accuses Russia of attacking nuclear fuel facility near Chernobyl

Ukrainian officials said on Sunday that a Russian drone struck a facility used for handling spent nuclear fuel near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, raising fresh concerns about nuclear safety amid ...