Pripyat: The Atomic City Evacuated in an Afternoon
A model Soviet city of about 49,000 people, emptied in a single afternoon in April 1986 and never resettled.
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Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
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The Chernobyl Disaster: The Night Reactor 4 Exploded
A safety test, a reactor with a fatal design flaw and a night shift that never had a chance: how Chernobyl happened, how it was hidden, and what it left behind.
Duga Radar: The Soviet Woodpecker Hidden in the Chernobyl Zone
A 150-metre steel wall in the Chernobyl Zone that tapped a mystery signal across the world's shortwave bands, and was never on a Soviet map.
Chernobyl: The Nuclear Plant at the Heart of the Exclusion Zone
Beside the abandoned city of Pripyat, about 100 kilometres north of Kyiv, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is still being decommissioned. Its story runs from the Soviet reactors that powered the region to the 1986 disaster, later accidents, and the 2022 invasion.