“Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown” premieres on Sunday, March 1 at 9 p.m.. The two hour premiere is the first two episodes of a four part series marking the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear ...

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 ...

In the early hours of April 26, 1986, the world witnessed the worst nuclear catastrophe in history. A reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in northern Ukraine exploded, spreading radioactive clouds ...

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Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...

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 ...

CHERNOBYL, Ukrainian SSR (WCSC) — Sunday marks 40 years since the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the town of Pripyat in Ukraine. In 1986, an explosion and fire at the power plant ...

There aren't many single words that conjure up as much horror and emotion as 'Chernobyl'. The name of the ill-fated nuclear power plant will live long in the memory - though perhaps the estimated ...

“Disaster: The Chernobyl Meltdown” continues on Sunday, March 8 at 9 p.m.. You can watch on-demand (or live as new installments air) on Sling TV (half off first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster took place in the former Soviet Union (now Ukraine), CNN is revisiting the tragedy in an ...