Uncover the chilling chain of events behind the catastrophic Chernobyl explosion caused by the AZ-5 emergency shutdown button. This detailed visual explanation uses precise 3D animation to reveal ...

Only those who serve the dead reactor and its three functioning neighbors can pass beyond.</p> <p>In April 1986, workers and engineers scrambled to keep the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s ...

Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl meltdown, a scientific debate rages. Is the area around the reactor a death trap full of mutants or a new Eden for threatened species?

* Chernobyl engineers shut down the last functioning reactor, Number Three, in December 2000. Radioactive nuclear fuel is still being removed from the plant.