Metal Workers. The Quiet Nuclear Explosion: Which Plant Blows Up in Silence Like Chernobyl? Posted: May 26, 2025 | Last updated: May 26, 2025. Nuclear disasters have left a lasting impact on ...

The plant, the ghost towns of Pripyat and Chernobyl, and the surrounding land make up a 1,000-square-mile (2600 square kilometers) ... or it would have blown away," Edwin Lyman, ...

When the Chernobyl nuclear accident happened April 26, 1986, Maia Mendel was five months’ pregnant with her daughter Julia, who would become President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s press secretary.

On the night of April 25-26, 1986, an explosion and fire destroyed the Chernobyl 4 reactor about 60 miles from Kyiv, sending a radioactive cloud into the air that spread across the Soviet Union ...

According to Alberque, the scale of the effects of any disaster at Zaporizhzhia would be more akin to that at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979, rather than Chernobyl (1986) – or even ...

On social media like Twitter and Telegram, commentators have called the situation the “largest environmental disaster in history” or simply “Chernobyl 2.0,” invoking the 1986 nuclear disaster.

Russian troops have placed “objects resembling explosives” on roofs at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address Tuesday that ...