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Anybody who’s watched HBO’s dramatic miniseries Chernobyl has seen a gritty, realistic look at what happened during and after the infamous 1986 nuclear disaster in what was, at that time, Soviet ...

Professor Jim Smith in the Chernobyl control room of Reactor 3. Credit: Jemma Cox. Professor Jim Smith was a Green Party ...

(CNN) — The Chernobyl nuclear power plant has seen a huge increase in visitor numbers in recent years as part of a growing global interest in dark tourism. And now, intrepid travelers be able to get ...

An employee of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant walks in the control room of the destroyed 4th block of the plant on February 24, 2011, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the meltdown of reactor number ...

In the early hours of 26 April 1986, Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded after a planned safety test went catastrophically wrong. The Chernobyl disaster was the result of a chain ...

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The “highly radioactive” control room at Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant’s Reactor 4 at the center of the facility’s infamous 1986 catastrophe is open for tourists, so long as they wear a protective ...

Efrem Lukatsky, a Kyiv-based photographer for The Associated Press, was living in the city on April 26, 1986, when the ...

The New Safe Confinement sarcophagus covers the destroyed reactor number four at the Chernobyl nuclear power station (Image: Getty Images) The world's most catastrophic nuclear accident devastated a ...