The Soviet Union knew the Chernobyl plant was a ticking time bomb for years before it melted down — but the government kept the nuclear facility running anyway. Soviet leaders hid knowledge of the ...
The HBO miniseries about the 1986 crisis aired its finale Monday WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from HBO’s Chernobyl. The explosion emitted 400 times the radioactivity as the bomb ...
Greenpeace is investigating the radiation levels at Chernobyl following the Russian occupation of the area. Russian forces seized the Chernobyl nuclear power plant—the site of one of the worst nuclear ...