The Chernobyl nuclear disaster saw a series of explosions and a subsequent fire at the fourth reactor, releasing radioactive ... gained access to the Unit 4 control room last Wednesday as part ...

The shock of the disclosure, from several international media sources, stood in sharp contrast to the searing fire ... s brigade members were engaged on the roof of the No. 4 reactor, they saw ...

Chernobyl's "sarcophagus" NSC was built to house the melted-down number 4 reactor immediately following the 1986 disaster. An even more enormous secondary outer shell of steel and concrete, added ...

The invasion has raised questions about Chernobyl, infamous for the worst nuclear disaster in history. On April 26, 1986, reactor No. 4 at ... the explosion and fire. The effects of radiation ...

9 A pump in the turbine hall of Chernobyl's Unit 4. 10 The ruins of the turbine hall in Unit 4. When the reactor exploded, falling radioactive debris set the roof of the building on fire.

IN the depths of reactor four of the Chernobyl ... the role of these illnesses to Chernobyl. “Chernobyl, in terms of the illnesses associated with it, is a fire that will not be put out in ...

Kyodo News and NHK World are both reporting that Fukushima reactor number 4 is on fire. But ignore the category ... there's no chance of this being a Chernobyl-type disaster due to the design ...

at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on Friday. At the plant itself, an unfinished reactor resembled an abandoned giant erector set. A billboard near Reactor No. 4 portrayed a large fire and urged ...

The head of the Chernobyl ... The fire crews from Paramilitary Fire Station Number Two arrive at the power station. They are stunned to see that the roof of Reactor No 4 is missing.

AP The Chernobyl plant is the site of the world’s first level 7 nuclear energy accidents, when Reactor 4 suffered a power surge ... the structure and ignited a fire. The blaze has since been ...