Chernobyl

Science

The Elephant's Foot is a massive, dense formation of hardened molten material created during the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster. It consists of sand, concrete, meta...

nuclear-safety

The area around the former Unit 4 reactor at Chernobyl remains a controlled Exclusion Zone, with the destroyed reactor sealed within a protective structure and radiation levels...

Celebrity Profiles

In the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, the character Pavel is portrayed by English actor Chris O'Dowd. Pavel is a Chernobyl plant deputy chief who appears during the early phases of t...

Science

Chernobyl blue refers to a distinctive blue-green glassy material found in and around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant site, primarily in areas affected by the 1986 accident. I...

science-tech

The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone remains a controlled area in northern Ukraine, centered on the site of the 1986 nuclear accident. Today, the zone is not uniformly hazardous: hotspo...

media-coverage

HBO’s Chernobyl is a scripted miniseries that dramatizes the 1986 nuclear disaster near Pripyat, Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. It follows the immediate response, the...

culture

The HBO miniseries Chernobyl dramatizes the 1986 nuclear disaster and its aftermath, focusing on the decisions, risks, and institutional failures that shaped the response. This...

Science

Lyudmila Ignatenko (née Kopytko) became widely known as the partner of Chernobyl firefighter Vasily Ignatenko and as an outspoken voice on the disaster’s public health and hu...

nuclear-safety

The present day Chernobyl site is best understood as a controlled industrial and ecological landscape rather than a uniformly abandoned wasteland. The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Pl...

radiation

Areas around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant remain contaminated more than 35 years after the 1986 accident, with the highest risks found in soil, sediment, and confined space...