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Chernobyl Disaster Stock Photos

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View of the Chernobyl Nuclear power after the explosion on April 26 1986 in Chernobyl:,Ukraine.

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Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few weeks after the disaster. Chernobyl, Ukraine, USSR, May 1986.

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View of the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant three days after the explosion on April 29, 1986 in Chernobyl:,Ukraine.

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View of the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant three days after the explosion on April 29, 1986 in Chernobyl:,Ukraine.

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Chernobyl nuclear power plant a few months after the disaster. Chernobyl, Ukraine, USSR, 1986.

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The New Safe Confinement, installed in 2016, protects the remains of Reactor 4, destroyed during the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, at the Chornobyl...

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View of the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant three days after the explosion on April 29, 1986 in Chernobyl,Ukraine.

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Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

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Map of the 30km Chernobyl zone, showing terrestrial density of plutonium 239 contamination in the year 2000, June 1, 2000 in Chernobyl exclusion...

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Technician at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant control room of reactor n° 3.

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Chair and a telephone are in the Reactor 3 Main Control Room at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Kyiv region, Ukraine, on April 14, 2026. April 26...

Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Contrôle de la radioactivité des véhicules par les douanier à la frontière entre la RDA et la RFA après la catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl, le 2...

Contrôle de la radioactivité la la frontière entre la RDA et la RFA

Contrôle de radiations, à la frontière de la RFA et de la RDA, suite à la catastrophe nucléaire de Tchernobyl. Herleshausen, le 4 Mai 1986.

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Ferris wheel stands in an abandoned amusement park on April 12, 2025 in Prypiat, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. On April 26 the fourth reactor of the...

The Evacuated And Devastated City Of Prypiat Near Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Chornobyl, Amusement Park, Pripyat City

View of the water-cooling tower of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant as Ukrainian soldiers visit the 30-kilometer exclusion zone surrounding the...

Chernobyl, site of world's worst nuclear disaster, remains haunting place

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Woman holds, 02 October 1989 in the Tchernobyl area, a disabled newly born pig victim of the radioactivity fall-out of the Chernobyl power plant...

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Employees walk to Chernobyl's New 108 metres Safe Confinement covering the 4th block of Chernobyl Nuclear power plant on April 23, 2018. - Ukraine on...

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Since 1992, American and Ukrainian researchers and scientists have studied 28 generations of mice coming from the 'red forest', which was severely...

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Ten Years After Chernobyl

Ten Years After Chernobyl

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Picture taken on April 21, 2015 shows gas masks on the floor in a school in the abandoned village of Orevichi, inside the exclusion zone around the...

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People in PPE suits and hard helmets head for the Central Control Panel-I at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, on April...

Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

The Reactor 4 Main Control Room is at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, on April 14, 2026. April 26 marks the 40th...

Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Corridor is pictured at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Kyiv region, Ukraine, on April 14, 2026. April 26 marks the 40th anniversary of the...

Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Contrôles et mesures de radioactivité sur les vols en provenance de l'Est, après la catastrophe de Tchernobyl. Francfort, le 7 Mai 1986.

Catastrophe de Tchernobyl

Manifestation anti nucléaire suite à la catastrophe de Tchernobyl. Paris, le 24 Mai 1986.

Catastrophe de Tchernobyl

Chornobyl, Archival

Crimean tartars pray as they pay tribute victims at Chernobyl memorial in Kyiv on April 26, 2025 during the commemoration of the victims of the...

UKRAINE-ENERGY-CHERNOBYL-DISASTER-ANNIVERSARY

Accidents and Disasters

Emergency radiation protection suits are on display at the Ukrainian National Chornobyl Museum in Kyiv, Ukraine, on April 23, 2024. The museum is...

Ukrainian National Chornobyl Museum In Kyiv, Ukraine

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Nuclear Power Station, Mission Control, Chornobyl

Heavy equipment surrounds the Chernobyl nuclear plant May 1, 1986 in Russia. Safety work is being done on block nr. 4 of the plant after an explosion...

Chernobyl Nuclear Plant

Chornobyl, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 1980-1989

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Chornobyl, Ukraine, Abandoned

Photo on display at the Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum on April 20, 2007 in Kiev,Ukraine.

Ukrainian National Chernobyl Museum In Kiev

Chornobyl, Firefighter, Death

View of the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant three days after the explosion on April 29, 1986 in Chernobyl:,Ukraine.

Chernobyl: first pictures after the nuclear disaster.

Chornobyl, Ukraine, Nuclear Power Station

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Radiation warning in Chernobyl forest

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Reactor No. 4 of Chernobyl nuclear power plant

Chornobyl, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, Nuclear Power Station

In the rooms damaged by the explosion inside the shelter, debris has been pushed aside to make passages, like this corridor which leads to the lower...

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

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View of the House of Culture "Energetic" and the central square of Pripyat

Chornobyl, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, 1986

Sacha, aged 7, suffering from leukaemia at the children's hospital in Minsk. He died in July, 1995.

Child Victims of the Chernobyl Disaster

Chornobyl, Archival, Victim

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