Scene from the former day care facility in the town of Pripyat – the company town for the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. It was built as a shining example of the “Life Soviet” in the mid-seventies – ...
“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 ...
The April 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant remains a defining moment in the history of nuclear energy. The lessons of this tragedy are interwoven with a recurrent theme: namely, the ...