chernobyl (ukraine)
Russian blunders in Chernobyl: 'They came and did whatever they wanted'
Tank treads ripped up the toxic soil, bulldozers carved trenches and bunkers, and soldiers spent a month camped in — and dug into — a radioactive forest.
Chernobyl: Nuclear power plants weren’t built to survive wars
Military strategists commonly target the enemy’s electrical grids. That’s a problem when the combat is in a nuclearized country like Ukraine.
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What a power cutoff could mean for Chernobyl’s nuclear waste
With no working reactors, there is no risk of a meltdown. But the ruins from the 1986 disaster still pose considerable dangers.
What a power cutoff could mean for Chernobyl's nuclear waste
With no working reactors, there is no risk of a meltdown. But the ruins from the 1986 disaster still pose considerable dangers.
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Dramatizing the Chernobyl disaster, for its survivors
Unlike the recent HBO series, the Russian-language feature film “Chernobyl 1986,” now on Netflix, explores the human toll of the power plant explosion.
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Chernobyl wildfires reignite, stirring up radiation
Wildfires are common in the so-called Zone of Alienation around the abandoned Chernobyl plant. A larger-than-typical fire is stirring up radiation, though levels remain normal in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital.
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Coming to a country near you: A Russian nuclear power plant
A Russian state company is financing and building reactors across the world, reaping for Moscow both profits and geopolitical influence.
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