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Igor Fedorovich Kostin (27 December 1936 – 9 June 2015) was one of the five photographers in the world to take pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near Pripyat in Ukraine, [1] on 26 April 1986. He was working for Novosti Press Agency (APN) as a photographer in Kyiv, Ukraine, when he represented Novosti to cover the nuclear accident in ...
Included in this category are non-free fair use images related to the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, an important topic of unique historical significance. Media in category "Images related to the Chernobyl disaster"
The Chernobyl disaster began on April 26 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in northern ...
The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant [a] (ChNPP) is a nuclear power plant undergoing decommissioning.ChNPP is located near the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine, 16.5 kilometres (10 mi) northwest of the city of Chernobyl, 16 kilometres (10 mi) from the Belarus–Ukraine border, and about 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Kyiv.
The Elephant's Foot is a mass of black corium with many layers, resembling tree bark and glass. It was formed during the Chernobyl disaster of April 1986 from a lava-like mixture of molten core material that had escaped the reactor enclosure, materials from the reactor itself, and structural components of the plant such as concrete and metal. [3]
By contrast, in 1986 the Soviet Union mishandled the Chernobyl nuclear explosion, in large part because the USSR was not prepared for such a disaster. Thirty-five years after Chernobyl, the U.S ...
The New Safe Confinement (NSC or New Shelter; Ukrainian: Новий безпечний конфайнмент) is a structure put in place in 2016 to confine the remains of the number 4 reactor unit at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Ukraine, which was destroyed during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
Anatoly Ivanovich Rasskazov (Russian: Анатолий Иванович Рассказов; 16 January 1941 – 17 February 2010) was a staff photographer and illustrator at the Soviet Chernobyl power station. He was the first person to photograph the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster. [1] [2]