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BBC visits Chernobyl ghost city 40 years after world's worst nuclear accident
The BBC's Jessica Parker visits Pripyat, which was abandoned in 1986 after an explosion at the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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Chornobyl first responder says few survive 40 years on Reuters
April 21, 2026Chernobyl's last wedding: The couple who married as a nuclear disaster unfolded
Serhiy and Iryna married 40 years ago, unaware a nuclear reactor had exploded less than 3 miles away.
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Video. Ukraine’s Chernobyl ‘liquidators’ return 40 years after disaster
The group visited key locations including the abandoned city of Pripyat, once home to about 50,000 people, and the New Safe Confinement structure covering the damaged fourth reactor. The commemoration
After 40 Years, A Chernobyl Survivor Returns Home
Share Share Print PRIPYAT, Ukraine -- Klavdia Omelchenko has never summoned the courage to return to her former home in the town of Pripyat -- hastily abandoned during the Chernobyl nuclear disaste
Chernobyl's last wedding: The couple who married as a nuclear disaster unfolded
It was just after midnight. Iryna Stetsenko had finished doing her nails for her wedding, opened the balcony door and was battling her nerves to get to sleep. In a nearby apartment packed with guests