The explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant led to a radioactive cloud over large parts of the former Soviet Union, now the territories of Belarus, Ukraine & Russia
Chernobyl
Yaroslav Yemelianenko said yesterday that ‘another batch of Russians’ had been taken to the ‘Belarusian Radiation Medicine Center in Gomel’ for treatment
Scientists were pretty confused by how the fungus could survive in an area that had been so heavily tainted with radiation...
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Vasily Ignatenko was just 25 when he succumbed to slow death via radiation poisoning after fighting the fires of Chernobyl
The fire covers about 20 hectares, while another smaller fire has been "localized"
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Photos reveal the structure's rise and fall
In 1946 the US detonated an atomic bomb at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands, Micronesia; it was the first underwater test of the device
While radiation has subsided in some areas others maintain contamination levels that are dangerously high