Deep in Kyrgyzstan, a former secret Soviet uranium town now lives under the shadow of a slow-moving radioactive disaster. Decades of neglect left 23 unstable tailings ponds, contaminated water, rising ...
An hour after midnight on 26 April 1986, a catastrophic explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant caused loss of human life, left people scrambling to flee, and within days, the entire area of ...