On this day, April 26, 1986 at 01.23 a chain of events in Reactor Number Four at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic triggered the world’s worst nuclear disaster.
In the weekend edition of The Irish Times Adi Roche writes an opinion piece about the disaster, arguing that it is not history but rather a warning to the world.
In 2022 invading Russian tanks drove through the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, turning it into a military corridor and churning up radioactive dust that had lain undisturbed for 40 years.
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