Chernobyl 10 years later: a threat to the future CNN Presents Chernobyl: Legacy of a Meltdown April 4, 1996 Web posted at: 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 GMT) From Special Reports Correspondent Larry LaMotte CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (CNN) -- In 1986, an explosion ripped through Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. It was the world's worst nuclear accident. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev ...

Chernobyl survivors recall a decade of death and denial April 26, 1996 Web posted at: 3:00 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) SLAVUTYCH, Ukraine (CNN) -- Workers from the Chernobyl power station stood in silence Friday to remember colleagues killed when the plant's fourth reactor, now encased in concrete, exploded 10 years ago. The mourners, who had come from all over Ukraine, Belarus and Russia to remember ...