Chernobyl at 40: A disaster contained — and a new threat emerging

George Mihalcea

PARIS — The rusted Ferris wheel in Pripyat, Ukraine, stands frozen in time, a creaking symbol of the Soviet city abandoned in April 1986. But exactly four decades after the world’s worst nuclear disaster, the danger is no longer just historical. Forty years after the explosion of Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, the site remains one of the most complex nuclear cleanup operations on Earth. Today, four years into Russia’s invasion of its neighbor, that containment is under

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