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Here are two brave photographers who took the first pictures of the Chernobyl disaster from a helicopter in April 1986.
18 Photos. In Focus. As the HBO miniseries Chernobyl comes to a conclusion tonight, viewers will have been taken on a dramatic trip back to 1986, experiencing the horror and dread unleashed...
On April 26, 1986, a series of explosions destroyed Chernobyl’s reactor No. 4, and several hundred staff and firefighters tackled a blaze that burned for 10 days and sent a plume of radiation around the world. More than 50 reactor and emergency workers were killed in the immediate aftermath.
Ahead, 17 images that show what the zone looks like today. The cause of the explosion was two-fold. The first major issue was that the power station was built with faulty construction and what American physicist and Nobel laureate Hans Bethe has called "built-in instability". Gleb Garanich/Reuters.
After the April 1986 nuclear disaster, a 30-kilometer zone around Chernobyl was completely abandoned. This is what it looks like today. More than 30 years have passed since the 1986 nuclear disaster at Chernobyl became the most devastating catastrophe of its kind in history.
A Long Look at the Effects of the Chernobyl Disaster. Gerd Ludwig's photographs of the aftermath of this catastrophic nuclear meltdown tell a story that continues to unfold.
Below, recent images from Chernobyl and nearby ghost towns within the exclusion zone, as well as memorials held in Ukraine and Russia.
Maxim Dondyuk is preserving evidence of people’s lives in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, before the nuclear explosion turned their communities into ghost towns.
Using a tripod, camera, and a robotic rig, Brack captured these eight 360-degree images that take you inside the abandoned city. In your browser, click and drag to navigate through these photos...
Gathered below are recent images of the ongoing cleanup work and the ghost towns being reclaimed by nature within the 1,000-square-mile (2,600-square-kilometers) exclusion zone in Ukraine. Hints...