At 1:23am on Saturday, April 26th, 1986, a failed experiment blew the 500-ton safety cap off of the Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Nuclear Power Plant's Reactor Number 4. According to Sasha Yuvchenko, a member ...
Twenty-five years ago today, reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in what's now Ukraine melted down. Some 600,000 workers were exposed to massive amounts of radiation and the ...