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Reactor 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant, as it exploded.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant had four working reactors. The incident happened on April 26, 1986, when operators of the power plant ran ...

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A timeline of events surrounding the explosion at Chernobyl's nuclear reactor 4 and the subsequent disaster.

The front page of the Erie Daily Times 27 years ago today! The big story: the Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown, which happened when a damaged atomic reactor at the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl nuclear plant caused a radiation leak.

An aerial view of the damaged Chernobyl nuclear-power plant, photographed a few weeks after the disaster, in May 1986. On April 26, 1986, a series of explosions and failures destroyed Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4. Several hundred staff and firefighters were faced by a fire that burned for 10 days sending radioactive radiation around the world.

Chernobyl, Ukraine, Ocober 1995..The explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on April 26 1986 was the worst nuclear accident in history..Staff at work in the still-functioning Reactor No 2.

On April 26, 1986, Reactor #4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the town of Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded. The explosion took place at 1:23am while the neighboring town of Pripyat slept. Two workers were killed instantly. 40 hours later, the residents of Pripyat were ordered to evacuate, and most never returned; by that time, many of the residents had suffered varying degrees of radiation poisoning.

On April 26, 1986, one of the world's worst disasters occurred in the Ukrainian city of Pripyat (then part of the USSR). There was an explosion caused by a ...