In photos: Rare captures from the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Chernobyl's Number Four reactor caught fire and exploded in April 1986, sending a radioactive cloud of dust over Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and other parts of Europe in the world's worst civil nuclear disaster.
A helicopter sprays a decontaminating substance over the region surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power station June 13, 1986. Photo: REUTERS/Tass
A traffic policeman checks vehicles entering the restricted zone surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear station, June 13, 1986. Photo: REUTERS/Files
A child cries as she drinks an iodine solution to help combat the effects of radioactivity leaked from the Chernobyl power station, in Bialystok, Poland, May 1, 1986. The town had one of the highest radiation levels in Poland. Photo: REUTERS/Files
A wedding party crosses a street weeks after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the settlement of Polesskoe near Chernobyl, May 9, 1986. Photo: REUTERS/Vladimir Repik
An aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant's fourth reactor in May 1986. Photo: REUTERS/Files
Workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant hold a banner reading "We shall fulfill the government's goal" in this November 1986 photo as they pose in front of the plant's fourth reactor after covering it with the first layer of its concrete sarcophagus. Photo: REUTERS/Files
Major Leonid Telyatnikov, one of the first firefighters at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster and head of the Chernobyl fire brigade, hugs his wife Larisa in the hospital grounds where he is being treated for exposure to radiation July 4, 1986. Photo: REUTERS/Tass
A technician monitors the nuclear reactor #3 in a control room of the Chernobyl power plant, May 13, 1988, two years after the explosion. Photo: REUTERS/Dominique Dudouble
An aerial view of the fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant after its explosion, in a May 1986 photo. Photo: REUTERS/Vladimir Repik
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