Chernobyl

This week marks four decades since the meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in what was then the Soviet Union and is now the Ukraine. The accident happened on April 26, 1986 and became known to the wider world on April 28, when radiation levels spiked at a nuclear power…

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Taoiseach Micheál Martin has paid tribute to the “extraordinary courage and resilience” of all those who have endured the legacy of the Chernobyl nuclear plant explosion which occurred 40 years ago on Sunday. Martin said that the continuing war in Ukraine reminds us “that the struggle for dignity, safety and…

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Democracy Dies in Darkness The remains of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant can be seen last year from the upper floors of the Polissya Hotel in Pripyat, which was used by officials and specialists during the response to the 1986 disaster. (Photos by Serhiy Morgunov/For The Washington Post) Russia’s invasion…

Ukraine’s president lashed out at Russia, accusing it of “nuclear terrorism,” as Kyiv observed the 40th anniversary of the explosion and meltdown at the Chernobyl power plant, the world’s worst civilian atomic disaster. Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticized Moscow citing Russian drone flights over the remnants of the destroyed plant in northern…

The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it down during an electricity blackout. A combination of reactor design flaws and technician errors meant that…