A frozen world, sealed in time. Earth, as it was known, changed on April 26, 1986, at 1.23am, when the night split open. Inside Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, a routine safety ...

What we can say for certain is that more than 100 different radioactive materials were released by the explosion of Chernobyl’s reactor 4 in 1986. One of the most dangerous was iodine-131, which the ...