On April 26, 1986, during a poorly managed safety test and partly due to inherent defects in the plant, reactor number 4 at ...

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 crew at the nuclear power plant wanted to test the reactor's behavior during a power failure, triggering the most serious ...

The world's worst nuclear disaster began 40 years ago at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986, when Unit 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power generation facility experienced an explosion and meltdown. Ironically, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nikolay Solovyov was on shift the night of April 26, 1986 when the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded. Instead of fleeing, he ...

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 ...

The shattered remains of Chernobyl’s reactor 4 are one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. Not only are the ruins physically dangerous, but they are highly irradiated, pitch black and shrouded ...