BBC visits Chernobyl ghost city 40 years after world's worst nuclear accident

The BBC's Jessica Parker visits Pripyat, which was abandoned in 1986 after an explosion at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power ...
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Ghosts of Chernobyl: Haunting images from a city left behind

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 ...

How Chernobyl exclusion zone was cut off from world to become ‘giant roach motel’… & the ghost residents who never left

FORTY years on from the greatest nuclear disaster in history, a 1,000 square mile patch of land is still sealed off from the ...

Inside Chernobyl's shadow community, 40 years after disaster

Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and ...
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Chernobyl's ghost town

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40 Years After the Meltdown, War Layers Another Disaster on Chernobyl

Ideas have been floated for how the contaminated zone could bring economic benefits to Ukraine. But for the foreseeable ...

Chernobyl at 40: The night the nuclear dream became the world's worst nightmare

A routine safety test, a sudden surge, and within seconds, the world changed forever. On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl ...