The Soviet city of #Pripyat, population 49,360, was evacuated in 1986 on #ThisDayInHistory due to intense radiation from the #ChernobylNuclearDisaster. Many of its residents worked at #Chernobyl, just 3 km away. It remains a ghost town, an eerie sort of late-#Soviet time-capsule.
Of course the #nuclear industry marks the 40th anniversary of the #Chornobyl radiological disaster by enthusiastically demanding more nuclear. No word for anyone who lived in #Pripyat or where the downwind plumes deposited fallout. Just more public $$ for them.

Forty years after the Chernobyl disaster, a science writer explains what went wrong with the nuclear power facility and why. Long answer short, it was Soviet hubris, and fossil fuels are still much more dangerous than nuclear.

https://reason.com/2026/04/26/chernobyl-was-a-communist-disaster-not-a-nuclear-one/

#SovietUnion #USSR #Chernobyl #ChernobylDisaster #cleanEnergy #airPollution #climateChange #energy #fossilFuels #governmentFailures #history #hubris #nuclearEnergy #nuclearPower #nuclearSafety #Pripyat #Russia #Ukraine

Chernobyl Anniversary: Blame Communism, Not Nuclear Power

Forty years after the Chernobyl meltdown, too many people are still drawing the wrong conclusions.

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The #ChernobylNuclearDisaster in #Ukraine remains the worst #nuclear accident and most expensive disaster in history. It began on #ThisDayInHistory in 1986. Official lies about the danger contributed to the fall of the #SovietUnion. Cities of #Pripyat & #Chernobyl remain empty.

40 years after Chernobyl: Pripyat today.

After the catastrophic accident in the nearby nuclear reactor, the city of Pripyat had to be completely evacuated.

Some 50 000 people left their homes forever.

DW visited the town with a former resident 40 years later.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260426-40-years-after-chernobyl-pripyat-today?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Pripyat #Chernobyl #Nuclear #Ukraine #History

40 years after Chernobyl: Pripyat today.

After the catastrophic accident in the nearby nuclear reactor, the city of Pripyat had to be completely evacuated. Some 50 000 people left their homes forever. DW visited the town …

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📅 Hoy recordamos la explosión de Chernóbil en 1986 que fue 500 veces más potente que una bomba atómica 💣💥 Prípyat se convirtió en la ciudad fantasma más grande de Europa 🏢 #bielorrusia #chernóbil #EnergíaNuclear #prípyat #radiación #ucrania https://soyarmenio.com/40-aniversario-de-chernobil/
40 aniversario de Chernóbil: El legado del desastre que detuvo el tiempo en Europa - SoyArmenio

☢️ Hoy se cumplen 40 años de la tragedia de Chernóbil. Un accidente 500 veces más potente que Hiroshima que detuvo el tiempo en Ucrania

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Adnkronos - ultimoratop: Quarant'anni fa il disastro di Chernobyl

(Adnkronos) - All’1.24 del 26 aprile 1986, a Pripyat in Ucraina, il più grande incidente della storia dell’energia nucleare

Forty years ago, the Chernobyl disaster.

(Adnkronos) - At 1:24 AM on April 26, 1986, in Pripyat, Ukraine, the largest nuclear energy accident in history occurred.

#Chernobyl #Pripyat #Ukraine

https://www.adnkronos.com/internazionale/esteri/quarantanni-fa-il-disastro-di-chernobyl_2tkMurlLfTTDfvReL5lbJW

Chernobyl, 40 anni fa il disastro nucleare

All’1.24 del 26 aprile 1986, un guasto al reattore numero 4 della centrale atomica provoca il più grande incidente della storia dell’energia nucleare

Adnkronos

Es jährt sich heuer eine Katastrophe ungeahnten Ausmaßes, die bis heute nachhallt. Und es auch noch kommende Jahrhunderte wird. Wer heute immer noch glaubt, Menschen könnten diese Kraft beherrschen, dem empfehle ich eine der für mich besten und eindringlichsten Serien aller Zeiten

#kernkraft #pripyat #katastrophe #gau #chernobyl

https://youtu.be/dsWF6vC8zpY?is=8fjMOMSHoELKIjsC

Chernobyl (2019) - Trailer [HD] Deutsch / German

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The #Pripyat River, which flows through the #exclusion zone, carried the contamination directly into the #Kyiv Reservoir. There, the particles settled to the bottom and remained there.