In this video, we dive into the dangerous and radioactive depths beneath the reactor using specialized diving equipment. Along the way, we face equipment failures, freezing water, and hazardous ...

Located within this zone are the town of Chernobyl and the city of Pripyat —the latter being the most famous ghost town in the world, as it was the settlement closest to the nuclear power plant. Today ...

When the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded in the early hours of April 26, 1986—precipitating the worst nuclear disaster in history—it resulted almost entirely from human factors. As the real ...

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...

The explosion at the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern Ukraine on April 26, 1986, changed the lives of thousands of Soviet citizens. The plant was located 20 kilometres ...

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 ...