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/
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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.
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.
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
