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The man who crawls into the perilous heart of the Chernobyl reactor
Ever since the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in 1986, scientists have needed to monitor radioactive conditions inside.
IT was known as the Stairway To Hell – a suffocating chamber leading to the roof of Chernobyl’s reactor four, which had been ...
Sergei Belyakov was one of the brave volunteers who shovelled radioative debris scattered by the explosion back into reactor ...
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World’s worst nuclear disaster site faces ‘catastrophic’ collapse, 36,000-ton arch damaged
A Greenpeace report released Tuesday, April 14, 2026, states that the internal radiation shell ...
April marks the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster. Find out more about what happened and the ...
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Helicopter pilots who saved millions at Chernobyl - they flew straight into the radiation
When the Chernobyl reactor exploded, the Soviet Union rushed thousands of volunteers into a lethal radiation zone. Among them were helicopter pilots tasked with flying directly over the exposed ...
On the 40th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, POWER sent a freelance photographer and correspondent to the site in Ukraine to document the massive decommissioning effort still underway—and the ...
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Chernobyl survivors reveal what they'll 'never forget until death' 40 years after nuclear disaster
The name of the ill-fated nuclear power plant will live long in the memory - though perhaps the estimated 20,000 years of ...
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