The Chernobyl exclusion zone is the closest we have to a real-life postapocalyptic wasteland. After the infamous 1986 meltdown of a Soviet nuclear reactor, around 1,000 square miles in northern ...

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According to its statement, IAEA was alerted to the explosion coming from the New Safe Confinement, which protects the remains of reactor four of the former Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

The State Emergency Service of Ukraine has said that work to tackle the smouldering fires in the insulation layers of ...

The 1986 Chernobyl fire remains the world's worst ... The region is called a 'dead zone' due to the extensive radiation which persists. However, the proliferation of wildlife in the area ...

A 30km exclusion zone is in place round the site. The Chernobyl Forum, a group of eight UN agencies, and the governments of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, have estimated the death toll at several ...

proclaiming “Chernobyl — from the exclusion zone to the renaissance zone.” More than a disaster area, much of the 1,000-square-mile Chernobyl exclusion zone, where access is strictly limited ...

Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone, by Serhii Plokhy ... would prefer to go home in lead coffins. Even their dead bodies, the threat implied, would be a radioactive hazard.