Photos show a gaping hole punched in the roof of the 40,000-ton outer shell of the plant, which was placed on its fourth reactor after the Chernobyl disaster. Nuclear map predicts where 75% would ...

At that time, Chernobyl and its nearest town, Pripyat, belonged to the Soviet Union. Today they are in northern Ukraine and Pripyat is a ghost town where time has stopped forever, as these images ...

Khomyuk soon traces the source of the radiation to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, where the core of a reactor opened on April 26, 1986, sending plumes of radioactive material into the air.