How Chernobyl exclusion zone was cut off from world to become ‘giant roach motel’… & the ghost residents who never left

FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the ...
WMAZ

Chernobyl's legacy: Kids with bodies ravaged by disaster

There are 2,397,863 people registered with Ukraine’s health ministry to receive ongoing Chernobyl-related health care. Of these, 453,391 are children — none born at the time of the accident. Their ...

Chernobyl: the five best things to watch and play to understand the disaster

Can we ever really understand Chernobyl? These five shows and videogames give a pretty good glimpse of what the disaster ...

Inside Chernobyl’s shadow community: what a nuclear disaster looks like 40 years on

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and ...
Observer-Reporter

Chernobyl, 40 years later

Gas masks littered on a floor. Forests overgrowing empty villages. An abandoned hospital operating room. Those are some of ...

Chernobyl's exclusion zone is a beacon of biodiversity—but it faces new threats from Russia's invasion

April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the explosion at Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The ...

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, its legacy still resonates

The nuclear incident at Chernobyl spread radiation across Europe and led to political changes that played a role in the ...