FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the world, crawling with cockroaches and patrolled by radioactive mutant ...
Once a vibrant, bustling city built to house the workers of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Prypiat now lies desolate, a shadow of its former self. Abandoned nearly overnight in 1986 following the ...
Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...
The BBC's Jessica Parker visits Pripyat, which was abandoned in 1986 after an explosion at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power ...
'We'll be lucky if we're all still alive in the morning.' ...
Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, the effects of the world’s worst nuclear accident are still being felt.
A routine safety test, a sudden surge, and within seconds, the world changed forever. On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl disaster turned a quiet night into a global crisis, releasing a radioactive cloud ...