The Chernobyl explosion happened one year after Glasnost, when everything was supposed to be open and honest,” Jones said, referencing then-leader Mikhail Gorbachev’s 1985 policy promise of a ...

At the time of the explosion, the town of Pripyat, built for Chernobyl workers and their families, housed 49,000 people. The resulting death toll is disputed, but U.N. agencies arrived at 4,000 ...

THE CHERNOBYL accident is one of the most devastating modern disasters and enduring cautionary tales for nuclear power. How did the Chernobyl reactor explode and what caused the Chernobyl explosion?

Thirty years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl power plant is surrounded by both desolation and clangorous activity, the sense of a ruined past and a difficult future. The ...

A CHERNOBYL engineer has recalled how he went into the nuclear reactor as part of a “suicide squad” to prevent a catastrophic second explosion. Protected only by diving equipment, Alexei ...

…And still worse. With no water to cool the reactor, it got even hotter – the "meltdown" you've heard of. Two seconds after the first explosion, there was a bigger one, which blew a 1000-ton ...

The number four reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant is seen in this December 2, 1986 file photo, after completion of work to entomb it in concrete following the explosion at the plant.

The explosion at Chernobyl sent radiation as far away as the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union's delayed response to the events is considered by some to be a contributing factor to the fall of ...

The initial blast at Chernobyl killed two, and 28 members of the emergency and clean-up crews, known as the liquidators, died in the first three months following the blast.

CHERNOBYL NUCLEAR POWER STATION, Ukraine (AP) - Thirty years after the world's worst nuclear accident, the Chernobyl power plant is surrounded by both desolation and clangorous activity, the sense ...