A reactor at the nuclear plant melted down in 1986, releasing smoke and causing thousands of deaths from radiation.
CHERNOBYL has transformed wild dogs into radiation ... to test the turbine but the reactor overheated and generated a blast - the equivalent of 500 nuclear bombs. The reactor's roof was blown ...
Chernobyl's "exclusion zone" - a 32-km (19-mile) radius around the plant - remains largely devoid of human life, 36 years after a flawed reactor design and series errors by its operators caused a ...
Stray dogs living in Chernobyl have evolved to withstand deadly ... Official figures claim around 30 people died from immediate blast trauma and acute radiation syndrome (ARS) in the seconds ...