Inside Chornobyl, 40 years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster

Inside Chornobyl, 40 years after the world’s worst nuclear disaster

PBS News April 25, 2026

Forty years ago, the world’s worst nuclear power disaster exploded into history at the Soviet Union’s Chornobyl nuclear plant in what is now Ukraine. The ensuing cover-up and clean-up operation made Chornobyl a byword for dereliction and mismanagement. Special correspondent Simon Ostrovsky and cinematographer Amanda Bailly report from the Chornobyl exclusion zone.

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