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Ukraine’s president has announced that Russian troops are moving towards the Chernobyl — and could risk damaging the sealed off nuclear reactor.

3.6 Roentgen

One advisor is warning that an attack could lead to "radioactive nuclear dust" being "spread over the territory."

Ukraine Says Russia Is Trying to Seize Chernobyl's Melted Down Nuclear Reactor

Threats of Russian invasion have led the Ukrainian military to a bizarre training location — the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. 

Nuclear Take

Pripyat may not be as radioactive as one would expect. 

Great, Ukraine is Doing Military Combat Drills in Chernobyl Now

What could possibly be more romantic than getting engaged to be wed at the site of a nuclear disaster?

Toxic Relationship

Who says romance is dead?

Couple Gets Engaged at Site of Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown

Authorities in Ukraine have sized over 1,500 bottles of a spirit made out of apples grown near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, as USA Today reports.

"We are working hard to get it released, but we can't sell you anything yet."

Authorities Seize "Atomik" Booze Made Near Chernobyl Disaster

Officials just found that buried uranium at Chernobyl is triggering new nuclear reactions, raising the possibility of another dangerous accident.

Round Two

"It's like embers in a barbecue pit."

Scientists Fear New Disaster at Chernobyl Meltdown Site

A team of engineers from the University of Bristol visited the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant last week to test out Spot, a four-legged robodog.

Radioactive Spot

This is exactly what Spot was designed for.

Scientists Send Boston Dynamics Robodog Into Chernobyl

Ukrainian authorities say a forest fire is causing radiation levels to spike in the area of Chernobyl, a nuclear power plant that melted down in 1986.

Hot Zone

Radiation levels are already sixteen times higher than normal.

A Fire at Chernobyl Is Releasing Large Amounts of Radiation

Emergency physician Joshua Lerner says that America's response to the coronavirus pandemic is so bad it reminds him of the Chernobyl disaster.

Sick And Tired

Developments

"Please don't tell me that in the richest country in the world in the 21st century, I'm supposed to work in a fictionalized Soviet-era disaster zone and fashion my own face mask out of cloth."

ER Doctor: US Bungling COVID Response Like Soviets Did Chernobyl

You can now visit the control room where the decisions leading up to the Chernobyl disaster were made. But only for five minutes.

Radiation Tourism

You have five minutes to endure radiation levels 40,000 times higher than normal.

Daring Tourists Can Now Visit Chernobyl's Control Room

Scientsts brewed a single bottle of vodka using grains they planted in Chernobyl's radioactive Exclusion Zone. It's as safe to drink as any other brand.