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Chernobyl disaster

This image made from a video released by Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shows bright flaring object landing in grounds of the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine
Nuclear
A Ukrainian nuclear plant survived Russian attack. But it raises security concerns over reactors in war zones, analyst says.
chernobyl in ukraine
Environment
Chernobyl has become a refuge for wildlife 33 years after the nuclear accident
A man in shorts and a baseball hat stands next to construction workers covered in soot.
Media
HBO’s ‘Chernobyl’ revisits nuclear catastrophe with a nod to climate change
and old woman in a field
Environment
Despite the risks, holdouts refuse to abandon Ukraine’s radiation hotspots
Moose in the Exclusion Zone
Environment
Wildlife in Chernobyl is thriving 30 years after the nuclear accident
A commute in Thailand
Global Scan
This is what commuting looks like in Turkey, Brazil, Thailand and Tokyo
Big plastic bags containing radiated soil, leaves and debris are dumped at a tennis court at a sports park near the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
Health & Medicine
A reporter covering the Fukushima nuclear meltdown actually lived through Chernobyl
Environment
Sunflowers used to clean up radiation
Environment
Radiation, Risk and the “Linear No-Threshold” Model
Arts, Culture & Media
Chernobyl cancer study surpasses UN estimates
Chernobyl Cleanup Worker: ‘We Thought We Were Saving a Country’
Remembering Chernobyl
Arts, Culture & Media
Japan Raises Severity Rating of Nuclear Crisis
Environment
Fukushima likely not as bad as Chernobyl, but what does that mean?
Chernobyl, Abd-El Krim, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Arts, Culture & Media
Remembering Chernobyl after 25 years
Radiation Explainer: What it Does, Why We’re Scared
Photographing Life After Nuclear Disaster
Japan: Managing a Disaster
Crisis and Devastation in Japan
The Living on Earth Almanac
Mail Drop
Forgetting Chernobyl
CHERNOBYL AT 11
Decontaminating Plants
American Engineer opens the Door to Chernobyl
Lithuania’s Nuclear Future
Russia’s Bullish On Nuclear Power
Sealing the Sarcaphagus
Chernobyl at 20
Chernobyl Remembered
Emerging Science Note/Sex & the Single Worm
Chernobyl Revisited