Chernobyl: Inside the World’s Deadliest Nuclear Disaster

Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster

The Chernobyl disaster was one of the most catastrophic nuclear accidents in human history, occurring on 26 April 1986 at Reactor No. 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in the former Soviet Union. During a late-night safety test, operators made critical errors while the reactor was running under unstable conditions, and serious design flaws in the RBMK reactor intensified the situation. A sudden power surge caused explosions that destroyed the reactor core and releas

40 years after the #Chornobyl disaster, the world remembers