Can we ever really understand Chernobyl? As a researcher in visual culture, I find myself returning to this question again and again as I examine films, TV shows, documentaries, visual novels and ...
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Chernobyl disaster zone - four decades on: Inside abandoned town sealed off from the world
A frozen world, sealed in time. Earth, as it was known, changed on April 26, 1986, at 1.23am, when the night split open. Inside Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a routine safety ...
The Chernobyl disaster occurred when technicians at the power station, near Pripyat in the north of Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, ran a test on reactor number four to simulate shutting it ...
Some historical events are so catastrophic they resist comprehension. And yet they compel us to try to understand them, again and again. Chernobyl is one of them. On April 26, 1986, at 1:23am, Reactor ...
Photographer Pierpaolo Mittica has been documenting the passage of time at the disaster site as clean-up crews, tourists, and war, come and go in a landscape still teeming with radiation. "We are just ...
John and Andrew introduce the unexpected populations of dogs living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and note dogs have been present since the 1986 disaster. While the Exclusion Zone contains the ...
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Could you survive 72 hours in Chernobyl?
Standing in the middle of Chernobyl sounds like something from a nightmare. The abandoned buildings, empty streets, and history of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters make it seem like a place ...
In the novel "When There Are Wolves Again" by E.J. Swift, the Chernobyl disaster and its legacy is extrapolated to a near future where natural habitats are depleted and precarious. This work of ...
In April 1986, the world changed forever when the Chernobyl nuclear disaster unfolded in what was then the Soviet Union. What began as a late-night safety test at Reactor No. 4 quickly turned into the ...
As a blue coach pulls up outside Chernobyl nuclear-power plant, friendly stray dogs approach it. It has passed through multiple Ukrainian military checkpoints—necessary since Russian troops briefly ...
The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there's a revival around the world, a trend that ...
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