“One of the atomic reactors has been damaged,” a Radio Moscow broadcast announced about the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 28, 1986—nearly three days after the accident. “Measures are being ...
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 accident at reactor four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 generated the largest release of radioactive material into the environment in human history. The impact of the acute exposure ...
It's 40 years since the Chernobyl disaster. This is what it has meant for wildlife living around the devastated nuclear power plant. "Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa!" In the middle of the night, a noise from the ...